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
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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
St. George's Episcopal Church, Nashville, Tennessee is home to our Opus 48. This four manual and pedal organ has 58 ranks, including a fully enclosed 32'-16'-8' Trombone/Tromba, as well as a fully enclosed 16' Ophicleide/Tuba. When all preparations are ultimately installed (including a 9-rank Antiphonal division) the instrument will have 65 stops and 73 ranks. […] 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
The 1872 Wm. A. Johnson organ, Opus 386 (which received an OHS Historic Organ Citation in 2012) at St. Josaphat Catholic Church in Chicago underwent cleaning and restorative pipework repairs in the Buzard factory. This is the oldest organ built for Chicago in metropolitan Chicago […] Read More
Buzard Pipe Organ Builders is privileged to announce its selection for a new organ, and entering into an agreement for its engineering and design, with St. Joseph’s Catholic Cathedral, in Jefferson City, Missouri. The new organ will be a prominent feature in the Cathedral’s upcoming renovation. The new instrument is envisioned to have from approximately […] Read More
The 1963 Holtkamp organ in Wheeler Auditorium in Evansville, Indiana has been removed to the Buzard factory following water damage. The console will be rebuilt with a new solid state relay: the organ will be completely rewired; the water-damaged Positiv windchest and pipes will be restored, and the organ will be reinstalled once renovations to […] Read More
One of our smaller projects this summer (but no less important for that) was cleaning and repairs of the two manual and pedal, 5-rank electropneumatic action organ, built in 1978 as the Opus 11,248 of the M.P. Möller Organ Company, installed in First United Methodist Church, Griggsville IL. In addition to repairing the tremulant and […] Read More
The community of faith in Pekin, Illinois known as Our Savior's Lutheran church, have had a Wicks pipe organ to serve them in song and service for many years. Recently, however it became apparent that the church should update the relay of the organ and install a solid-state system. Buzard has been hired to carry […] Read More
The Wicks pipe organ of Peace Lutheran church in Thomasboro, Illinois has served the congregation faithfully for many years. It has become evident that it was time to provide the instrument with a new multiplex system. This system controls the instrument and is the interface between the organist and the organ pipes. The Buzard team […] Read More