Schullmer Chapel Chime repair and demo

Bob Weigel of Sound Doctorin' goes through a set of chimes probably built in the early 60's I'd guess. Pardon the sections where a battery ran out interrupting my speech etc. I thought of my dad as I cut the piece of plastic to repair that key. I totally eyeballed it and just sliced with the xacto knife rounded blade I was holding in part of it. It flanged out a hair at the very end but was otherwise within 2-5 mil the whole way on a two cut out of the middle of a piece of plastic! Hehe. I think Dad the master guestimator would be proud. I used to say 'Dad don't you think we should use a ruler for that??' thinking he was going to mess up and waste material. But he knew his trade well and seldom did.

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Music

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• Schullmer
• Chapel
• Chimes
• Chime

[sounddoctorin]

YES! If you can get some of that it'd be great. I used regular thread and those might be ones that broke I don't know. I had to repair 4 or 5 of them or something on the bottom. Oh and you saw the hoops for the top in the envelope I assume that I left inside?

[Busstopfatang]

Believe it or not this Schulmerich now lives in Perth, Western Australia. Several chimes have broken away from the backboard during transport. I am a tech over here and I guess I have to learn to restring the chimes :)

Your repaired key is hanging in there.

It's a small world.

[sounddoctorin]

hehe. Oh wow yeah let me know if you need any tips on it. I had the buzzy relay rigged so that it didn't buzz too..apparently that shifted in shipping as well. Blessings,

[Busstopfatang]

yes the relay is a bit of a pain. I will install a sealed relay in an octal base. I have all the schematics but have to learn the technique of restringing the chimes, about 5 have broken away totally. Any idea of the best thread to use? I was thinking tuning dial thread.