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The Repair Shop

Series 4: Episode 3

Organ builder David Burville takes on the repair of a vintage harmonium, brought into the Repair Shop by Marian Stanley. Marian’s family come from Stepney in London’s East End, and she has many fond memories of the harmonium and the festive gatherings for which it provided the soundtrack, with family members of different generations all taking their turn at the keyboard. However, the harmonium is now over a hundred years old and hasn’t played a tune in decades. With leaky bellows, broken reeds and cracked and chipped casing, David has a massive job on his hands to get it playing again.\n\nCeramics conservator Kirsten Ramsay also faces a daunting challenge in the shape of a ceramic dish that was smashed to bits 25 years\nago by then-13-year-old Karen Barnett. The dish was Karen’s father Richard’s pride and joy, and Karen has lived with the guilt ever since. \n\nAnd Jay leads the repair of a hand-crafted doll’s house with a touching story behind it. As a young girl, on her daily walk to school with her grandfather, Debbie White would pass the same black and white house every morning. Debbie loved the house so much that her grandfather promised her that one day she would have it. And the following Christmas, there it was under the tree in miniature form, handmade\nby her grandfather. Debbie has treasured the doll’s house ever since, but now rickety and in danger of collapsing, it takes the combined efforts of\nJay, furniture restorer Will Kirk and art conservator Lucia Scalisi to return the beloved toy to its former splendour.

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