I try to live one day at a time, but just lately it feels as if several days have hit me all at once.

However, progress has been made.  The oak frame for the choir manual will be ready next week, and I will have 43 Kimber Allen pistons next month. I gave serious consideration to Klann pistons, and the salesperson from Klann was extremely helpful.  I like the Klann piston style, which is essentially the European style, and somewhat cheaper than Kimber Allen.  In the end I settled for KA on the basis that it looks “more English”.  I think I would choose Klann if I were building the console from scratch, but since I’m building this organ into an existing English console, with English keyboards, and intend to have an English organ as my primary sample set, I feel that the KA style would be more harmonious.

the next job is to get the holes drilled in the piston rails, and hopefully next month I will be able to assemble the keyboard stack.  I’m getting to the point where I might actually start looking at midi interfaces.

Mia is off for surgery next week to remove the nasty mammary tumours.  Prognosis is excellent, but the operation is a big one.  Poor little puppy.  (She’s 7 years old and weighs 40kg, but she’s always a puppy to me.)