Foley-Baker, Kotzschmar Memorial Organ, Part 1

Celebrates Curtis’s 100th anniversary

Thar she blows.

This photographic essay explores the work of two pipe organ builders. One is a business with over a dozen employees; the other is an owner/organbuilder who works with associates when large projects dictate additional help. One firm has embraced technology, electric action and stops, augmented with solid-state electronics; the other builds tracker-action instruments where, on smaller instruments, the blower motor is the only electrical part. Both have extremely well-equipped woodworking shops.

Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary, Ambler, Pennsylvani