Jack Hardman, Great Falls, Virginia

Hardman Music Studio
Actually the barn, as it has come to be called, was built to be both a music room and my workshop. It is normally entered through the residence, but the upper level is essentially at grade, allowing things to be conveniently moved in and out through two large doors at the front patio end of the barn.  A driveway leads around and down to the side of the building to allow access to the shop floor on the lower level through an overhead garage door.

Summer View of Meadow
Even after our normally short and mild Virginia winters, the coming of Spring is a very welcome change.  It's fun to see the grass green up and the new leaves emerge. This is the springtime view of the meadow behind the barn as seen from the windows between the two pipe chambers.

Wurlitzer Organ Console in Hardman Studio
Most of the restoration work took place in the work shop which is located on the lower level, about 9 feet below. A 10 ft. wide bridge starting at the edge of the upper level allows visitors to walk above the workshop floor to a window stack overlooking the meadow.  This picture was taken during the installation of the organ when the shop was still pretty crowded.

Hardman Studio Wurlitzer in the Barn
This is about how it looks today, although for concert performances we almost always reposition the console to the opposite side of the listening area, behind the camera, to increase effective seating capacity to 160.

The bridge and window stack separate the two pipe chambers to increase the spatial diversity of sound. I chose to place the console at the opposite end of the studio to allow the organist to hear the same more distant sound heard by the audience.

The next section will show and describe the restoration phase for this instrument.
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