New Organs

Quimby Pipe Organs, Inc.,

Warrensburg, Missouri

Catalina United Methodist Church, Tucson, Arizona

Schoenstein & Co., 

Benicia, California

Dahlgren Chapel, 

Taylor and Boody Organbuilders Staunton, Virginia

Opus 70, 2015

Virginia Theological Seminary Alexandria, Virginia

Fratelli Ruffatti, Padua, Italy

St. Mel’s Cathedral, 

Longford, Ireland

Randall Dyer & Associates,

Jefferson City, Tennessee

Austin Organs, 

Hartford, Connecticut

Opus 2344 (1961 and 2014)

Peragallo Pipe Organ Company, Paterson, New Jersey

Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph, Brooklyn, New York

Orgues Létourneau,

St-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

Opus 127

David E. Wallace & Co. 

Opus 35/35a  (2003 & 2012)

Patrick J. Murphy & Associates in Stowe, Pennsylvania, recently completed a major renovation of the organ at Church of the Covenant, Scranton, Pennsylvania. The 3-manual, 37-stop, 56-rank instrument recasts the existing 1960s-era Schlicker with a new Swell division, revoiced Great and Positive fluework, new chorus reeds throughout, and a new PJM Signature console.  

Relocation and resurrection

From the organbuilder

Mercer University has acquired and has dedicated a new organ for the organ teaching studio in McCorkle Hall, Townsend School of Music. The instrument, the Giuseppe Englert Memorial Organ, was originally built by Victor Gonzalez in 1953 in Paris. Its home for 59 years was the salon in the apartment on the Boulevard de la Tour-Maubourg (in full view of the impressive gold-leaf dome of Les Invalides, where one finds the tomb of Napoléon) of Giuseppe Englert and his wife, Jacqueline Englert-Marchal, the daughter of celebrated blind French organist André Marchal.

From the organbuilder

Building a new studio teaching and practice organ for the Curtis Institute of Music came with some unusual parameters. The available space was the former percussion studio, a pigs-ear room for an organ, buried in the basement of the former mansion on Rittenhouse Square. Totally padded with carpet and acoustically absorbent material, it was obvious that an acoustician was going to be needed, not only to tell us what could be done to improve the situation, but also to warn us how bad it might actually be!

From the builder

Christianity was first established in Japan by the Portuguese missionary St. Francis Xavier in 1587. The Anglican Communion was not established until 1859 in Nasaki, but was only permitted to serve the British and American communities in the Nagasaki foreign settlement until 1860, when restrictions on religious freedom were lifted. The first Anglican bishop, the Rev. William Ball Wright, was appointed in 1866. In 1881 the first Cathedral Church of Kobe was established. The existing Cathedral Church of St.

An historic idyll

The hamlet of Lattingtown, a sub-enclave of Locust Valley on New York’s Long Island, is named for the locust trees that forest the terminal moraines left by receding glaciers. The land was purchased from the Algonquin-speaking tribe of the Lenape nation in 1667, and during the late nineteenth century, the region became known for its quiet serenity while enjoying proximity to New York City, where many of the area residents also kept city homes and offices for their business interests.

Temple Organs has built a new pipe organ for First United Methodist Church, Burlington, Iowa, to replace an earlier Temple organ destroyed in a catastrophic arson fire in 2007. The organ comprises 60 ranks, with a four-manual console, and includes a polished copper Trompette-en-Chamade. The exposed Great, Solo, and horizontal Trompette surround the unique rose window, which is six windows around one, whose concrete frame was salvaged after the fire. A large oak frame will enclose a future LCD screen.

From the organbuilder

In their search for an organbuilder, Memorial Presbyterian Church identified an ability to lead hymn singing as a priority for their new instrument. The accompaniment of the church’s choir and the needs of the organ repertoire were important but less significant considerations; this pipe organ’s raison d’être was to support a large congregation in song. As a result, our Opus 122 was designed to offer the perceptive player a wide array of colors and textures for leading hymns and word painting.