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The feature page of the University Daily Kansan
Monday. May 5. 1980
Pipe organs built by local artisans
Photos DAVE KRAUS
Bob Patient bends cut the mouth of an organ pipe. Thipecs are made of a soft alloy, so a sharp kt does the job. Each hole must be uniform sound from the first organ.
Tucked away in a library green building at 6th and New
Hampshire streets, 70 j and quietly work your quality at a crew
and make it happen.
"We're a clandestine ringer," Joean Al Fisher, manager of personnel and service the jitter Pipe Organ Co.
Although Reuter empires rarely, if ever, wear hooded blue
gloves, they carry on a tradition of pionery
organizing that is darling on the ground.
Founded in 1917 by A Reuter and Albert Sahol, the company was established in Laware in 1920, shortly after it delivered a organ to local Masmide implant and decided to move into the former Wilder Brothers $s$ factory at 612 New Hampshire.
"We build everywhere from start to finish," said Max Mayse, technical repiter. Reuter organs are custom-designed and built by kit. Twenty-five to 30 are produced each year. However, some go to university colleges, and private fees.
NO TWO are alike.
"You just don't want here and say, I'll take the small one the corner," Fisher f.
Each organ design i product of the buyer's needs, space requirements, and but.
The pins span from艇 to cast on the map, from one on a forane at freethumbs Calif. to one foraine on a hag organ at the seaport.
An old wall map inherits a office is studied with red, white,
orange, each reprinting one of the more than 2,000 Reuter
organisms.
Several pins are clerked around Lawrence, because four
women have been the origin of the organization Saresh Redd Hail,
behind him.
The pipes used by the company are made of an alloy of tin and lead. The sound holes, or mouths, are then cut to exact size by hand.
Organ building is complex task.
"There's an art of 'made Mayse'. You've got the casewine people working with various types of wood. You've got the people that have to &k with the metals for the pipes, the vase and the pots." The whole thing you put the whole thing together make it work.*
EACH COMPANY is hand-made, with the pipes which are made at a maker's North Lawrence plant. Some are crafted from an alliab lead and tin; larger pipes, from nine copper; some florish select woods as and walnut and walnut.
Doug Dubois shapes the pieces make every part from raw mate
Story by GREG RICHARDS
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