Summer into Fall tuning

Since tuning the all the reeds in late July, they have held well through slightly hotter and slightly cooler weather. We've recently taken another step cooler as fall approaches and the tuning still holds! This past weekend we celebrated our patronal feast and I had occasion to touch a little more full organ stuff and it all sounded great, to me at least. No complaints yet!

Recent high humidity does bring out some ciphers in the swell when coupled, but these apparently date to its 70's rebuilding. When I prepare stops in silence I have to remember to first draw a QUIET swell stop to see if it will cipher, keeping the box closed, NOT doing it during quiet parts of the service. If it is ciphering I work the swell to great coupler on-and-off a couple times and it almost always takes care of it. I must remember that I can't pull on the loud reeds in one pull while we pray! This little issue multiplies when the humidity rises, as it certainly has arisen over this past weekend. I am told that the swell coupler action is closely regulated and if it were loosened so that it never ciphered, the regulation of the playing action would suffer; it's a balance. As I find myself saying to others, when WE are 148 years old we will have a few idiosyncrasies too!