It has been a high honor to build the new organ for Our Savior's Lutheran Church. The congregation is actively engaged in musical expression at every service and their participation is extraordinarily high. The new organ is a part of the congregation's ongoing growth and recent construction of a new Church building. The Evangelical Lutheran […] Read More
I envisioned the organ for Glenview Community Church to be something extremely grand and heroic. The sanctuary is designed in stately colonial style, and the sound of the organ had to be appropriate to the mass of the room. In order to serve the church's far-reaching, eclectic music program, the instrument had to accompany choirs, […] Read More
It has been a high honor to build the new organ for St. Paul's Cathedral. The Cathedral's music program is top-flight, and includes committed parish volunteers and paid singers; the music ranges from renaissance motets through the best modern Anglican anthems. The organ was completed ahead of schedule and used at Solemn Eucharist celebrated by […] Read More
The opportunity to design and build a new pipe organ for St. George's Church was a professional and personal privilege. St. George's parish had built a magnificent new church building, winning architectural awards, and becoming the pride of the Diocese only a few years before. About the time their new Church was built, we were […] Read More
In 1992, when nearly all the members of the Bellevue United Methodist Church's Organ Committee took the time and suffered the expense to fly to Chicago to meet me, and then drive another 2 1/2 hours to Champaign to see our instruments and our workshop, I knew that these were very special people, and that […] Read More
Although the original church was built in 1867, this is First Congregational Church's first pipe organ. The first instrument was a reed organ, pumped by the organist, which served faithfully for nearly 100 years. The reed organ's handsome case was made into the Church's pulpit, still in use today. A Hammond electronic instrument followed, which […] Read More
This instrument of 23 stops (30 ranks of pipes) across two manual and pedal is the fourteenth new organ built by the Buzard Pipe Organ Builders of Champaign, Illinois. The new instrument replaces a Wangerin Organ, built in Milwaukee in 1922, which was reworked and added to in the 1960's and 1970's. If a new […] Read More
This organ resides in a beautiful acoustic! During the 2014 year, renovations were accomplished in the sanctuary. We installed a temporary instrument in their fellowship hall until the renovations of the sanctuary were completed. The organ was then re-piped and is back to serve this thriving Catholic community […] Read More
