The console of this 1954 Casavant organ was renovated in 2004, including installation of a new solid state multiplex relay and combination action. The electropneumatic expression engines were replaced with new electric action equipment. Four sets of metal pipes that had pierced wooden stopper handles were repaired, and new felted metal caps with exactly matching […] Read More
Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Collinsville, Illinois 1. The console was completely rebuilt, retaining the existing stoprail and combination action. All new stop tablets were supplied to reflect the modified specification. New manual keyboards, with plastic natural and sharp keytops, and a new pedalboard, with maple natural and plastic sharp keytops, and thumb pistons, were supplied, […] Read More
The Henry Vincet Willis Organ - A National Treasure in Organbuilding The organ in the Cathedral is a significant instrument, not only within the city and diocese of Peoria, but also in the overall context of early-twentieth-century American organ building. Tonally it is among the largest and most important instruments designed, scaled and voiced by a […] Read More
Reuter – Schwarz Organ Company Trenton, Illinois Opus 8, installed 1918 We hope you enjoy the power point presentation below! Westfield UMC 2008 restoration Restored 2008 by Buzard Pipe Organ Builders Champaign, Illinois Please enjoy this video by the Organ Media Foundation! HISTORY: The organ in the church was installed when the building served the […] Read More
1950’s Schlicker organ, renovation (stage 1) in 2009 by Buzard Pipe Organ Builders Console rebuilt with new solid state relay and combination action. New Swell slider windchest, replacing existing pitman chest. New Swell 1-1/3’ Larigot in style of lost original stop. Enlargement of Swell enclosure and new electric expression engine. Restoration of reservoir and tremolo. […] Read More
1962 Schaefer organ, Sisters of St. Francis of the Immaculate Conception, Peoria, IL Repairs and improvements were completed by Buzard Pipe Organ Builders, in 2010 to the organ in the order’s Chapel, as follows: The console was removed to the Buzard factory for complete renovation. Work included the following items: • Manual keyboards and pedalboard […] Read More
John-Paul Buzard Pipe Organ Builders was commissioned by the Second Presbyterian Church of Lexington, Kentucky to provide a new console and switching system for their pipe organ. Their instrument began life as Opus 760 of Earnest M. Skinner […] Read More
This is last instrument of the Phelps Pipe Organ Company founded by Lawrence Phelps. They installed a combination action that eventually failed. The John-Paul Buzard Pipe Organ Company was selected to update the combination action with industry standard technology […] Read More
Buzard Pipe Organ Builders completed a renovation project in the spring of 2012, that included: restoration of the wind system, repairs to pipework, rebuilding of the concsole, and installation of a new solid state relay and combination action. The first organ in the church of which we have any record was built in 1912 by […] Read More
Buzard Pipe Organ Builders has completed renovations and restorations to the Wurlitzer Theater Organ from the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, IL. The Wurlitzer Style 185 was first installed without a Tibia, as was the fashion in 1921; as the Tibia color became an essential component of movie theater organ accompaniment sound, the owners had […] Read More