Rebuilding

1970 E.A. Holloway/1989 Buzard St. John’s Catholic Newman Center is the student Catholic parish on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It is home to a Holloway organ (a predecessor firm to the Indianapolis-based Goulding and Wood) with additions and modifications by Buzard. Our work was in conjunction with other renovations, painting, […] Read More

St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Quincy was home to a 1912 tubular-pneumatic action Wicks organ, which served the church faithfully until 2016.  An initial attempt by another firm to rebuild the organ was unsuccessful. Buzard has rebuilt the instrument with electric pull-down slider windchests for the straight manual stops, a rebuilt console with […] Read More

This 1974 two manual and pedal mechanical action practice organ was originally installed at a University in Minnesota.  If passed into private hands and was acquired by Buzard in 2015.  After extensive rehabilitation, and the installation of the prepared-for 4' Flute (and stop action) on Manual I, the organ was delivered to the University of […] Read More

Grace United Methodist Church in Rockford, Illinois has an instrument that has served them faithfully for many years. Originally installed in the church's former sanctuary in 1916 as Henry Pilcher’s Sons Opus 924, the organ has been much altered but retains all of its original pipework with some additions.  In 2021 and 2022, the pipework […] Read More

Since 1983, Plymouth Church in Milwaukee has enjoyed the sounds of its electric-slider-action pipe organ.  It has served the congregation well in the past 30 years.  However, tastes change and things wear out.  Because of this, it had become apparent that some significant work should be directed to the instrument to update the console technology, […] Read More

Please enjoy this video walking through the organ! Removing the bottom note of the wood Open Diapason from the original front chamber! The photo is our Tonal Director's sketch of the expanded façade, taking the 19th-century case and expanding it to encompass the entire instrument […] Read More

Sometimes things just work out. This lovely W. W. Kimball Co. organ was originally installed in the Small Preceptory of the Scottish Rite Cathedral in Chicago, Illinois.  Kimball produced so called "boxcar" organs that could be transported intact; this is a rare example of a boxcar organ. Because W. W. Kimball Co. used special mounting […] Read More

Tonal re-engineering of existing Wicks organ […] Read More

St. Peter’s Lutheran Church Dwight, Illinois Verlinden Organ, circa 1925, rebuilt John-Paul Buzard 1994 7 Ranks […] Read More

First Presbyterian Church Normal, Illinois Schantz Organ rebuilt & enlarged Buzard Pipe Organ Builders 1994, Opus 13-R […] Read More