Casting experiments and materials studies for restoring lead pipes in historical organs

We will report on a new casting technique basing on old recipes from the 17. and 18. century to produce new pipes approaching the quality of the old ones. Materials studies of old and new metal probes were performed by metallography and other methods. Different casting variants as well as the influence of hammering the casted metal plates onto the microstructure were investigated. In the course of these studies special consideration was devoted to the restoration projects at Borgentreich/Westfalen (Eule) and Stralsund/Vorpommern (Wegscheider).