Zionsville, Indiana, is a quaint community about 30 minutes north of Indianapolis. It has retained its rural character, but added modern coffee shops, restaurants, and shopping along the historic Main Street. Farms dot the outlying area, inhabited primarily by today's generations of their founding families. Horses are kept for sport. Until only last year, Main […] Read More
About the Organ, from the Builder Williamsburg Presbyterian Church is located on the main street entering Colonial Williamsburg, directly across from The College of William & Mary. The original Church, built in the 1930’s and added to in the 1950’s, had become inadequate to meet the growing congregation’s needs. The former instrument, a modest mechanical […] Read More
About the Organ from the Builder The organ at St. Bede Catholic Church was the result of eight years of planning. St. Bede Parish’s communicant strength is about 3,000 families, formerly located in a small landlocked building on the William and Mary campus. The former site, now the University’s Newman Center, simply could not accommodate […] Read More
This new organ of 14 Stops and 17 Ranks is the 30th pipe organ built by John-Paul Buzard Pipe Organ Builders of Champaign, Illinois. It was installed during March, 2004, ready for Palm Sunday, about a month ahead of the contracted schedule. The Church is a simple log cabin structure about 7,500 feet up in […] Read More
It has been a high honor to have been commissioned to design and build this exciting musical instrument for All Saints Church. During the last year, three large downtown Atlanta churches commissioned important new pipe organs. The fact that the All Saints organ is the only one of the three to be built by an […] Read More
Sometimes things are "meant to happen." This would certainly be the case with this new pipe organ, installed in this lovely new worship space. My assistant met The Rev. David Anderson at our exhibit at the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in Denver, almost three years ago. Father David took my business card and […] Read More
This instrument of 23 stops was installed and completed in time for Easter Day, 2002. The church's limited ceiling height offered us the greatest design challenge: There was insufficient room in the balcony for the entire organ, and we wanted the instrument to assist the eye in providing height to the room which the architecture […] Read More
When we were first contacted by the St. Andrew's Organ Committee, and asked for a plan for an instrument, their reputation as a committed Anglo-Catholic parish with incredibly fine music preceded them. Their choir, directed by Tim and M.B. Krueger, regularly offered stunning renderings of a capella renaissance and Tudor anthems, Anglican chant settings, and […] Read More
It has been a high honor to have been commissioned to build this new pipe organ for Holy Family Catholic Parish. The worship space was built in the 1970s, and seats approximately 1,000 people. A small pipe organ served them faithfully until last year, when it had to be removed so that the space could […] Read More
The new organ at North Shore United Methodist Church, Glencoe, Illinois, is our 24th instrument. It is distinctive in that it utilizes balanced mechanical (tracker) key actions for the manuals and pedals, incorporating devices which automatically regulate the action at times of barometric change. The console is detached from the case and reversed, so that […] Read More