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This very late Hinners Pipe Organ is perhaps one of the largest late instruments ever produced. Originally built as Bethany Reformed Church, founded in 1890, Christ Temple Cathdral, itself founded in 1917, acquired the building in 1972. The organ had become unplayable because the static reservoir needed a complete restoration and releathering. This work was […] 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

Relocation and Resurrection - Living Word Church, Roberts, Illinois - Hinners Organ #2696. This two manual and pedal, 7-1/2 rank electropneumatic action organ appears to have originally been constructed by Hinners with tubular pneumatic action for an unknown location. We believe that the original date of the instrument is before 1919, since the pitch of […] Read More

St. Paul’s Catholic Church, Danville. IL This organ started out as a small electropneumatic action 1920’s Hinners unit organ and became Eclectic Provinance Instrument . Buzard assumed care of the organ in 2007 and immediately began what became a five-year project of necessary corrections and improvements. There had been ill-advised interventions by various firms over […] Read More

This was a complete releathering, incorporation of a new relay, and included the complete cleaning of the instrument. St. John Lutheran Church, Anchor, IL – 4” wp at A440 1920 Hinners organ, rebuilt by Higgens 1952 who converted it from tubular pneumatic action to electropneumatic action. Great – 10 stop tablets 4-stop ventil stop action […] Read More

The First Presbyterian Church of Knoxville, IL purchased their current organ in 1901 from the firm of Hinners & Albertsen (Opus 458) which would later become the Hinners Organ Company. Their instruments were known for solid, quality workmanship both in the pipework and in the craftsmanship of the console and chests. The dedication of the […] Read More

St. John's Lutheran church in Pekin, Illinois was located in the home city of the Hinners family. Hinners had been building organs for decades in its plant in Pekin, and in the late 1920's, the church acquired a three manual Hinners organ. Buzard was honored to be selected to restore this instrument to its original […] Read More

Assistant Director of Service and Technician Kipp Cortez has led a varied and interesting career as a church organist, choral conductor, university professor, carillonneur, and now, organ builder. In his role in the Service Department at Buzard, he does tuning, restoration work, helps manage the tuning schedule, performs intake visits for new clients, and occasionally […] Read More