Portable Organ Kit

One of the Olympic organs was a Portable Pipe Organ, which Ludden developed as a kit. Two of these organs were built in Seattle. Instructions for building this kit were tested by a non-technical person working in our shop as a summer project. Instructions were rewritten in 1973 after Ludden moved to Enfield, New Hampshire. Two more of these were built in New England. Here are some contemporary photos taken during construction.

Instructions are contained in the files, below, by Chapter:

0 I nstruction Manual

Tables and Figures

There are four large drawings:

- Windchest Front View (1:1)
- General Arrangement (scale 1:5)
- Windchest End Section (1:1)
- Pipe Layout (1:1)

This design is copyrighted. You may use it for personal purposes and may build an organ for your own use or as a gift - using this design. Or you may simply wish to learn a bit about building a pipe organ.

Here are some construction times (hours to complete):

Jim with completed Portable Pipe Organ

taken in New Hampshire

Originally the keyboard went down only to F. This design was revised to extend to C for full four octaves - 49 notes.