April 2000 Photos of the Finney Chapel Organ, Opus 116, Shot in the Fisk Workshop as it is Crafted; Organ Slated for Summer 2,000 Installation Story by Linda Shockley Photos by Steve Malionek
	RELATED Finney Memorial Chapel at Oberlin College to Receive New Symphonic Organ Finney Chapel - Organ Construction Photos - August 2, 1999 March 15, 2000: See the Latest Photos of the Finney Chapel Organ - Opus 116 - as it is Crafted at C.B. Fisk; Organ Slated for Summer 2,000 Installation		Ted Stoppard voicing the Récit 8 Bourdon What weighs 45,000 pounds, has 60 voices, and 3,951 pipes ranging in size from 32' long to the size of a child's finger? It's the Opus 116 symphonic organ now being created for Finney Memorial Chapel by acclaimed organ designer and builder, C.B. Fisk, Inc. of Gloucester, Massachusetts. The acclaimed Fisk workshop is crafting an instrument of some 60 voices and 3,951 pipes that will occupy the front of the chapel. The large pipes range in length up to 32' long, with the largest, made of poplar, weighing 600 pounds. The entire instrument will weigh 45,000 pounds. The smallest pipes are the size of a child's little finger.  Organ Photos 1 ANDREW GINGERY Gluing up wooden 32' Contre Bombarde 2 Linda Dieck sanding upper lips of Pédale 16' Violone 3 Organ Console mock-up 4 Ted Stoppard voicing flute pipes 5 Close up of Ted Stoppard nicking a pipe mouth 6 Ted Stoppard voicing the Récit 8 Bourdon 7 Akimasa Tokito putting in the tuning slots of a Viole de gambe pipe 8 Jason Fouser joining a flue pipe foot with a pipe body 9 Andrew Dobos preparing languids for upside-down feet 10 Joshua Goldberg working on the Grand Orgue windboxes (chests upside-down) 11 Robert Hazard gluing up casework 12 Rick Isaacs making adjustments to the servo-pneumatic lever (a pneumatic assist which follows key motion) 13 Pipe metal casting, left to right: Terry Joris, Andy Dobos, Nick Perry 14 Dumping molten metal into the box (~160 degrees F) 15 Nick Perry admiring the handsome spots (the spots indicate that this sheet is made from 50% tin and 50% lead 16 Terry Joris is measuring the thickness of the sheet
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