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Claire of New York is building a Hauptwerk-based organ with the help of her son.

My solution for music rack might be of interest to prospective customers who don't have carpentry skills or tools but have basic power drill and screwdriver. I ordered a music rack and pair of brackets from an online organ supply company. Then I went to IKEA and found a modular shelving unit called "Norrebo" which cost $60 US. It is 44 inches wide and about 12 inches deep, and appropriate height to accomodate 3-stack of manuals. Instead of using IKEA's pre-drilled holes for attaching the shelf-legs, which would have kept the legs too close together to accomodate the width of the manuals, I drilled new holes on each side of the shelf, further out, and attached the legs there. Finally, I attached the ready-made brackets and music rack to the Norrebo shelving. Ultimately, I will probably bolt the rear of shelf-legs to the banquet table to prevent it from sliding or tipping if heavy binder of music were put on the rack, although it seems very stable at the moment.

As you know from previous pictures, we used a basic banquet table to support the manuals and accomodate the pedalboard. I've sent you a close-up of the "booster" boxes we built to raise the legs of the banquet table 2 1/2 inches to get to AGO standard height with respect to pedalboard. (They are made out of building blocks my sons used as toddlers!)