On a whim, I went carbooting this afternoon.  Picked up a couple of odds and ends, but most importantly I bought a Dremel.  Only cost £37 and looks hardly used (in fact only two of the bits appear to have been used).  I’ve checked the model and it currently costs £90 from Homebase.  Result.

Today’s work involved repairing the contact assemblies on the choir keyboard, but I’ll post about that when it is finished.  The main event was the reassembling of the swell keyboard in its frame, after cutting out wedges for the additional pistons.

You can see here the additional wedges.  Closer inspection will show you that my wedges are rather less expertly done than the original ones.  I tidied them up afterwards with my Dremel.  That was my justification for buying a new toy.

And here is the keyboard fitted into the oak frame.  That took a while; the keyboard sort of guzunder and guzover the crossbars, and it has been a long time since I took it to pieces.  Mia is doing QA.

I was going to take a photo of the completely assembled keyboard, but the light was poor and my iPad doesn’t have a flash (do any iPads have a flash?).  Tomorrow, maybe.

The next job for this keyboard is to test all the key contacts.  I think that the easiest way to do that is to wait for the MIDI encoder to arrive and plug it in.  Otherwise I’m going to need a third arm to manipulate the continuity tester and the keyboard.