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Grace United Methodist, Rockford, Illinois
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 […]
February 19, 2019
Grace Episcopal, Oak Park, Illinois 1922 Casavant
Above the 1922 Echo Bourdon is in the Hickory Street shop for replacing the leather stoppers. John-Paul Buzard Pipe Organ Builders is proud to continue to serve this congregation and their fine instrument in its ongoing restoration. This component of the project is the releathering of the pouchboards of the Solo Echo and Echo Pedal […]
February 13, 2019
St John Lutheran, Champaign, IL, 1976 Reuter
St. John Lutheran Church, Champaign, Illinois owns a 1976 Reuter. John-Paul Buzard Pipe Organ builders have again been commissioned to perform the second and final phase of tonal re-engineering. St. John’s upgrade of an organ installed in 1976 started in 2012 with a rebuilt console, new control system and tonal re-engineering. At a pastor’s conference soon thereafter, […]
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January 25, 2019
Buzard Opus 47
Omaha, Nebraska
Countryside Community Church has begun an exciting new chapter in its ministerial life. The Congregation has bonded with a Jewish Synagogue and a Muslim Mosque, purchasing land together and sharing infrastructure to create a “Tri-Faith Campus” in which Congregations from all three Abrahamic faiths live together in unity. The Synagogue and Mosque are built; the […]
November 8, 2018
Plymouth Church U.C.C. Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1983 Hammes-Foxe Pipe Organ
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, […]
October 29, 2018
Trinity Episcopal Mattoon, Illinois Reuter-Schwarz Opus 2
The oldest extant Reuter organ, the Reuter-Schwarz Opus 2 is found in Trinity Episcopal Church in Mattoon, IL. When the organ was built, the Reuter-Schwarz Organ company was in business in Trenton, IL. The Buzard team has cared for the instrument, and when the organ company, and the instrument, celebrated its centennial in 1917, Buzard […]
July 3, 2018
Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran
Hortonville, WI
Bethlehem Lutheran Church made the decision to move into a new building. As part of their relocation, they have planned for a future school and retirement community as well as walking paths! The first component of the site is a new sanctuary, which included in the planning the relocation of their present instrument, which has […]
January 2, 2018
Opus 43 Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, Blue Lake, Michigan
Our Opus 43 from 2014 is a mechanical action continuo organ crafted especially for Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Blue Lake, Michigan. The stops are divided Treble (left side) and Bass (right side). It contains an 8′ Holzgedeckt, 4′ Kleinflöte, 2′ Prinzipal and 1 1/3′ Quinte. There is a transposer knob that shifts from […]
September 5, 2017
Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church, Evanston, Illinois Ernest M. Skinner Opus 327
We are proud to have been selected as curators of this important instrument and grateful for the trust that Dr. Christine Kraemer, Organist and Rev. Jeannette DeFriest, Rector have placed in us. Recently there was ceiling damage in the Southwest corner of the Swell division. The church chose to have this repaired. In order to […]
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