Reed Organs again

[Dennis Johnson]

Sorry, but I want to know if someone can direct me regarding replacement
and tuning of a few reeds to my big old organ. It is an 1895 double
manual Story & Clark with pedal board and has four ranks of reeds. I have
already removed and cleaned all of these reeds, but 2 or 3 are broken
(not bad, actually) and one stop in particular is out of tune with the
rest of the organ. Cleaning did help considerably and 17 of
the remaining stops sound quite good together. Does someone here know
what it would take to get other couple of stops in tune, and to replace
those few bad reeds? It seems that one should be able to replace reeds,
but they are fastened with what looks like rivets.

I think that someone intentionally bent reeds in the past, and this must
have been a tuning technique, but specifically, how?


 Thanks for any help,
you may want to respond privately.


Dennis Johnson