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AGO 2002 Convention Displays The exhibits at the convention were comprised of music dealers, organ builders, artist representatives and (too many) electronic organ companies. I hung around while everyone was setting up their displays. (This was not unlike any number of the techie conventions in Javits Center, just less noisy and a little less crowded). Since size and weight would make it difficult to bring an entire pipe organ in for the show, most builders resorted to a display of a few pipes for demonstration purposes. One Canadian company (Casavant Freres) created a little model of a church: Others raffled off pipes painted by Pennsylvania Dutch folk artists: But the German company Oberlinger Orgelbau brought an entire organ to the show! They put it together on the spot. Hammering in the pegs on which the rack-board will rest: the rack-board has pre-drilled holes into which the pipes go. The first pipes are in! Doing a little "puppet theater" Testing the sound. The builder has gloves on to avoid fingerprints on the highly-polished tin pipes Installing the rack-board A close-up of the tracker action View from the back of the organ. A large number of pipes are in place Builder Juergen Rodeland plays some Bach on the completed instrument