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Upper Case
The upper case is made up of two end panels and a large center
section. Here are the end panels. Each section has a notch for the CCC and CCC# pipes.
This is the CCC Soubasse pipe bending into the organ:
The façade pipes sit on thick built up pieces. Here's one being glued up:
There are holes bored in these pieces to feed air to the façade pipes. Because of the way
the upper case is assembled, I made the top board removable. Here you can see the holes to that
will feed air to the façade pieps:
This is the center piece:
For the side towers, it's easiest for the conveyance lines to feed straight down. I used
copper pipe corners to turn into the upper case:
Here are the pipe shade frames. Eventually I painted them black and covered them with
speaker grill material:
Racking the side tower façade pipes:
Racking the center façade pipes:
Being worked on in the shop:
The upper case lying face down ready to be installed:
Music light:
Installation:

Upper case with pipe support braces and pipe shades:
Pipe shade clips:
Here's the music rack. The center is birdseye maple. This whole section is easily removeable
to allow access to the inside of the organ:


The upper case fully assembled:


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