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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SilverSurfer, post: 115718, member: 1664&quot;]I realise this is quite an old post but I&#039;ve only just found it.&nbsp; </p><p>I have a 150 year old pump organ that was left to my grandfather by his aunt, may even have been his great aunt.&nbsp; He was the only one in our family who could play it and I fondly remember him playing hymns every Sunday after tea.&nbsp; Eventually it came down the family to me.&nbsp; It has moved house with us several time over the last 40 years each time moving into another garage or shed.&nbsp; The bellows has rotted and some of the joints are loose, and sadly the high cost of restoration far exceeds its value.&nbsp; Nobody in the UK wants these instruments, restored or otherwise.&nbsp; They take up too much room in small homes and I know our kids would just scrap it when we&#039;re gone it has no sentimental value for them. So I&#039;ve decided if it&#039;s to stay in our house it must earn its place - by being converted into a desk.&nbsp; I hope to keep as much of the original appearance as possible, just add a desktop, maybe a few drawers etc.&nbsp; It will take me a while (I&#039;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.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think granddad would have minded![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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