Old organ repurpose ideas

The Organ Donor Project- the Dissection: (Note- This is an intro and a description of the disassembly of the organ. See The Recyclone Rotary Amp and The Blacklord Synth for projects using these parts.) When Gordy, my friend/gear scout/hoarding enabler, called and asked me if I wanted an ol…

Hi Friends! How was your weekend? I hope all went well and that you’re ready for some warmer weather this week! I know I am! I’m really excited to share this week’s makeover with you. Mandy reached out to us to see if we could help her with a project to create a bar out of her grandmothers old organ. She has a lot of special memories around this organ, but she didn’t need it to be an organ anymore. So we went over quite a few ideas for utilizing it as wine storage and a bar area. It’s going…

See how I transformed an unwanted old pump organ that was headed to the dump into a beautiful new wine bar! Follow step by step.... This is what she looked…

Posts about repurpose written by jlvance

Turning an Organ Into a Coffee Bar: This antique organ was donated to my church. Unfortunately, the organ was so old that the church received instructions not to use the organ, begging the question as to why have it at all. Ultimately, it was decided that the organ would b…

This Farrand oak pump organ is a personal repurpose/restoration job for a customer. It was manufactured in Detroit, Michigan between 1897 and 1914. This two piece non-working pump organ came to me…

Converting a Dead Organ to Writing Desk - Furniture Upcycle: In this instructable we go through the process of converting an EX60 Technics organ into a writing desk. The same process can be applied to the conversion of any organ, or even a piano, with basic woodworking skills and tools. Many lovely old uprig…

Broken Pump Organ Into Hall Table: these old pump organs are beautiful - and plentiful. they were like the casio keyboards of the victorian era. however most of them no longer work and are not really worth repairing, as they were so plentiful and, well, very few people really want to…

Grandma's Old Organ - We started out with an old organ that was being thrown away. We stripped all of the electronics and keys off, the we made a desktop with o