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rebuilding part wasn’t without its headaches. Sorting out 300 pipes — lights blinking and all — is no easy task, says Landrum. He had to special order different kinds of leather to replace gaskets between the wind chests and the pipes, and he had to disassemble the wind chests to restore and replace leather inside them.
“I’ve been.collecting keyboard instruments since I was 14 or 15 when I had to keep an old upright piano in the family in shape. I’ve always tinkered with them,” he says. “It’s fairly relaxing to restore them, and that's quite a difference from computer programming. I like to restore anything that’s mechanical and antique.”
In his collection is a one-of-a-kind chime-organ, which plays 50 chimes from a keyboard, and a familiar reed-organ, which are pipeless and often mistakenly called pipe-organs. “It’s a big harmonica,’ explains Landrum.
“I don’t pretend to be an organ player. But I started out playing the clarinet in the sixth grade, then the bassoon. My sister was takig piano lessons, but she didn’t like piano much and I started playing on it and taught myself.”
Landrum’s instrument is a twomanual pipe-organ with a great-organ (tonal quality) and a swell-organ
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