This stunning home boasts a three-floor foyer. Nestled into the alcove is a lovely 1935 Wicks three-rank Aristocrat Opus 1311 pipe organ. Because of its placement in the entryway of a grand Victorian home, the owner wanted the organ to look as good as its location. The exterior of the case and console were completely […] Read More
The congregation, founded in 1879, purchased the organ from Casavant Frères, Limitée, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada in 1922 as their opus 940 and 941 (the latter number for the antiphonal divisions). A console by Austin Organs, Incorporated, replaced the original console. The organ has nine divisions (Great, Swell, Choir, Solo, Choir Echo, Solo Echo, Corridor Diapason, […] Read More
Buzard was commissioned to provide and new console and switching system to their Skinner / Bunn=Minnick pipe organ in 2011 (please see our 2011 service listing for this project). In 2014 our team was entrusted with restoring the static reservoir for the instrument. Because of water damage, the wind box and flange attached to it […] Read More
Wolfgan Rübsam, the most recorded organ virtuoso of all time, purchased, in 1974, a small tracker organ from the Janke firm as a practice instrument and placed it in his barn on his farm near Valparaiso, Indiana. Rübsam is a graduate of Southern Methodist University, and, when he and his wife Jan relocated to a […] Read More
This instrument, Aeolian Skinner Opus 1169 (1948) was relocated from its original installation in 2008 by David Broskowski. Because of the need to reconfigure the division layouts for the new space because of the slope of the ceiling in the chamber, some non-Skinner mitered pipes were employed in the bass of one of the ranks. […] Read More