From Concept to Completion we are on the job full-time...

Our organs are made in the USA, by American workers. We occasionally use components from abroad (even the government has to do this from time to time,) but we feel it is important to control every aspect of our instrument's artistic creation.  In so doing, we feel that we are supporting this country which we love so dearly.

  

 

Survey and Analysis

We attend to the needs of the congregation. During the initial visit, we often like to attend services to determine the spirit of the existing music program; this helps our design energies to focus, and step in tune with the community. 

 

Architectural Services

We regularly employ the services of some of the country's best liturgical architects to help our own staff with the rather intricate work of mechanical drawing. The plans we present to the church will be highly representative of the instrument that is installed.

 

Construction

We are a full-service organbuilding firm, and from our shop in Connecticut, we can produce (or reproduce) any organ component, from pipe and windchest, to key and console. For larger projects, we occasionally subcontract larger components to the custom firms that service Organbuilders. We maintain close vigil to maintain intimate contact with every component going into an instrument that bears our signature.  On site, (especially with new construction,) we work with project engineers in new construction, just as any craftsman, to make sure that the installation is seamless and trouble-free.  

 

The real excitement of a new organ installation happens after the chests and casework is installed, and the first pipes are placed. The new organ speaks for the first time! While it is not by far the finished project yet, it is the baby's first cry - a promise of the good things to come!

Tonal Finishing

Following the mechanical installation of the organ, we spend a significant amount of time in the church, adjusting hundreds of variables in the speech of each pipe. While the bulk of this phase of construction is complete in a matter of weeks, (depending on the size of the instrument,) this process can continue for months to achieve the satisfaction of the Voicer. The challenge is to concentrate on the character of the individual voice, while balancing the effect of the entire instrument. It is a task that is born of empirical knowledge and the ear of a musician.