Wooden item – what is it

Wooden item – what is it

This topic has 7 replies, 5 voices, and was last updated 22 February 2025 at 12:04 by SillyOldDuffer.

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21 February 2025 at 19:50 #784828
Bazyle
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This appeared in the Shed – somehow evaded being made into firewood but in danger unless I can rescue it.
About 9 inches long and one of the curved faces is covered in, I think, leather. The black line down the middle is a fine slit all the way through – dead straight and thin so rather nicely done.
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21 February 2025 at 21:14 #784841
bernard towers
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Beer Barrel separator for stacking. Sorry Im doing this down the pub.
21 February 2025 at 21:57 #784854
Plasma
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<p style=”text-align: left;”>Too delicate to be for such a heavy duty use.</p>
My guess is that it is a part of a fitted scientific instrument case, leather to provide cushioning. The peg inserts into the case to support part of the delicate mechanism.

Only a guess mind.
21 February 2025 at 22:19 #784857
Plasma
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Google says it is part of a Farrand organ, specifically the pedal mechanism.

I should have said musical instrument not scientific lol.
21 February 2025 at 23:30 #784869
Bazyle
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@bazyle
Thanks Plasma. There are a couple of organ stops knocking around so might have come in with them.
22 February 2025 at 01:12 #784870
Plasma
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@plasma
Don’t know the exact function of it within an organ but it’s obviously very well made.
22 February 2025 at 09:33 #784877
Michael Gilligan
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Mmm …. I tried the ‘Google Lens’ image search [presumably duplicating Plasma’s work] and found things visually similar: but nothing identical.

Lots of interesting information about Reed/Pump Organs out there, but I’ve not seen a single image that is convincingly of the same thing that Bazyle has in his posesssion.

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22 February 2025 at 12:04 #784937
SillyOldDuffer
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Reminds me of a brake. From Bazyle’s about 9″ dimension, the drum would be about 15″ diameter.

If a brake, then it’s gentle. The pad is leather, the lever short, and the wooden block slotted and shaped to provide spring rather than apply brute force. Maybe from a machine used to spool delicates like cotton thread, where sharp braking would snap the thread.

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