Pump organ converted to a desk?

Figtree3 · Feb 7, 2016

SilverSurfer said: ↑

I realise this is quite an old post but I've only just found it.
I have a 150 year old pump organ that was left to my grandfather by his aunt, may even have been his great aunt. He was the only one in our family who could play it and I fondly remember him playing hymns every Sunday after tea. Eventually it came down the family to me. It has moved house with us several time over the last 40 years each time moving into another garage or shed. The bellows has rotted and some of the joints are loose, and sadly the high cost of restoration far exceeds its value. Nobody in the UK wants these instruments, restored or otherwise. They take up too much room in small homes and I know our kids would just scrap it when we're gone it has no sentimental value for them. So I've decided if it's to stay in our house it must earn its place - by being converted into a desk. I hope to keep as much of the original appearance as possible, just add a desktop, maybe a few drawers etc. It will take me a while (I'm not a cabinet maker) but I will try very hard to do justice to a much loved family heirloom and have a useful item of furniture at the end of it. I don't think granddad would have minded!
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SilverSurfer, I realize the conversion will take a while, but... if you remember, would you post photos to this thread some day when you have worked on it?

antidiem · Feb 7, 2016

Speaking of re-purposing furniture: I sold an office desk - a 60" wide mission oak desk - at my garage sale one year. It was a beautiful piece but too large to fit into my home.

Three weeks later I saw it photographed in full color on the front page of the "Living" section in our New Orleans newspaper - converted with the top cut out for a bathroom sink. ugh!

antidiem · Feb 7, 2016

I could tell that one was mine too..

Figtree3 · Feb 7, 2016

antidiem said: ↑

Speaking of re-purposing furniture: I sold an office desk - a 60" wide mission oak desk - at my garage sale one year. It was a beautiful piece but too large to fit into my home.

Three weeks later I saw it photographed in full color on the front page of the "Living" section in our New Orleans newspaper - converted with the top cut out for a bathroom sink. ugh!
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Wow -- sounds disappointing, but I guess they could do with it what they wanted. Still, what a shame!

antidiem · Feb 9, 2016

Thanks for the condolences, Fig!
Yes it was sad to see that..

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