Wyvern Organs have a reputation for quality that is well-deserved.  This instrument is in the region of 45 years old, and the fact that it is still working (apart from some problems with the amplification circuitry, probably caused by someone tampering with it) is testament to the skill of the builders.  Alas, time marches on and everything must go, to make room for the Shiny!  New!  Future!  (which is both futuristic, new and shiny).  It is not all going to waste, however, as a local organ engineer has snaffled the parts in case they come in handy for a repair job.  Here are some photos of the analogue organ, taken before its excision.

And a few of the surgery itself:

Note that I have also removed the keyboards.  There is space in the console for three manuals, and I know a very obliging organ engineer with a spare three-manual stack.  More on that in a later post, but for now gaze in wonder at the carcass of the once beautiful console.  Will it rise, Phoenix-like, from the ashes?  Only time will tell.