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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Construction
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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
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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.
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