Inspection Criteria for Tuning and Maintenance

Tuning and Maintenance Category

This category covers tuning, plus ordinary day-to-day maintenance. Also possession of, or ready access to, the skills and facilities necessary for the minor repairs and renewals that arise alongside such maintenance.

Important

There are two main sections required to be inspected to succeed in this category. The significance of the details within each is that, while examples of workmanship may have been witnessed over and above, in every case these items will have been inspected as a minimum requirement within this category.



Tuning	Maintenance
Accuracy of Bearings Tuning of flue-work Tuning of reeds Speech and regulation of reeds Tidiness of pipe-tops, tuners and stoppers etc.	All notes working correctly Condition of keys and key-touch evenness Intermanual coupler regulation Pedal coupler regulation General impression of care for the instrument
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The Institute of British Organ Building

Inspection Criteria for Accreditation

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Tuning and Maintenance Category

Important