New Organs

Halbert Gobert Organbuilders, Toronto, Ontario, has built a new organ for St. Sosa Lee Roman
Catholic Church, Etobicoke, Ontario. The church building, a recently renovated industrial facility, houses the nave, a large parish hall, offices, classrooms, and the rectory. Most of the light in the large square sanctuary comes from a skylight
over the altar and a large clear window behind the altar, through which a rock
garden is visible. The organ sits at the back of the room at a slight angle to
the rear wall.

Goulding & Wood, Inc., organbuilders of Indianapolis, Indiana, has built a new 2-manual,
38-rank organ (Opus 26) for St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Wilmington, North
Carolina. The action features G&W's exclusively designed electro-pneumatic
slider chests. The twin cases facing the chancel and twin cases facing the nave
are of red oak. Facade pipes utilizing the Pedal 16' Principal and Great 8'
Principal are tinted pale gold with natural burnished mouths.

Dobson Pipe Organ Builders, Ltd
style='font-weight:normal'>., Lake City, IA, has built a new organ for Elliott
Chapel of Presbyterian Homes, Evanston, IL. The firm's opus 64 of two
manuals, 26 stops and 25 ranks features mechanical key action and electric stop
action, with an 8-level solid state combination action. The two cases are of
rift sawn white oak with fumed finish. Manual keys are of ebony and rosewood;
the music rack has a veneer of elm burl. Wind pressures are 72 mm for manuals,
78 mm pedal; flexible winding.

Berghaus Organ Company, Inc., Bellwood, IL, has built a new 27-stop, 35-rank organ for Sacred
Heart School of Theology, Hales Corners, WI. Finished in March, 1994, this
organ, the firm's 30th mechanical action instrument, is located in the seminary
chapel, a circular building 133 feet in diameter, with the central space
surrounded by an ambulatory.

Berghaus Organ Company, Inc., Bellwood, IL, has built a new 27-stop, 35-rank organ for Sacred
Heart School of Theology, Hales Corners, WI. Finished in March, 1994, this
organ, the firm's 30th mechanical action instrument, is located in the seminary
chapel, a circular building 133 feet in diameter, with the central space
surrounded by an ambulatory.

Paul Fritts & Co. Organ Builders, Tacoma, WA, has built
an organ for the office and test kitchen of Jeff Smith, The Frugal Gourmet, in
Seattle, WA. Inspired primarily by the organ built by Esias Compenius in 1616
now located in the Frederiksborg Slotskirke, Denmark, the organ has ten stops,
all but one of wood. The front pipes (Quintadena 8') are made of vertical grain
maple with ebony inlay and are fitted with carved walnut mouths. The three reed
stops are closely modeled after the pipes of the Compenius organ and are also
primarily of wood.

A. David Moore, Inc.,
North Pomfret, VT, has built a new organ for First Presbyterian Church,
Oshkosh, WI. The firm's opus 23 features a free-standing case of ash, trimmed
with cherry; pipeshades are basswood. Keys are covered with cowbone and
grenadil; stop pulls are hand turned applewood. Metal stops are of high lead
alloys, including facade pipework from the Great 8' and 4' Principals. The hand
engraved bone stop labels were done by Donald Carbino. Mechanical key and stop
action.

Halbert Gober, Organbuilder, Toronto, Ontario, has built a new organ for the studio of John van
Leeuwen, Newmarket, Ontario. The organ comprises two manuals and pedal, with
five stops. The organbuilder writes:

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J. F. Nordlie Company, Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Kernersville Moravian Church, Kernersville, North
Carolina

From the builder:

The Noack Organ Co., Inc. of Georgetown, MA built its Opus 126 for St. Paul's Episcopal Church
in Salem, VA. Constructive cooperation between the rector, Dr. Robert T.
Copenhaver, consultant Tom Baugh, a well-informed organ committee and the organ
builder made it possible to overcome the obstacles of very limited space and
poor acoustics to provide an organ with a rich, warm sound that projects well
into the nave. Visually the organ fits nicely into this pleasant 250-seat
neo-Gothic church building.

The Berghaus Organ Company, Bellwood, IL, has recently completed a new 28-rank organ for St.
Mary's of the Hills, Rochester Hills, MI. It is completely free standing, having
no casework except for the red oak Swell enclosure in the center of the
instrument. The three-manual and pedal console is movable with multiplex
circuitry enabling a very small cable, and is fully MIDI compatible with sound
modules and a sequencer built into the console. Manual keys have maple naturals
and blackwood sharps.

Sebastian Matthaus Gluck, New York, NY, has built a new organ, Opus 6, for The Evangelical
Lutheran Church of Christ, New York, NY. All carpeting and padding were removed
from the church, adding two seconds of reverberation, and the organ site was
relocated to the front of the church, framing the window. The transept was
restored to return the building to its original cruciform, and a movable altar
and console were provided.

A. E. Schlueter Pipe Organ Company, Lithonia, GA, has built a new organ for Rivermont Presbyterian Church, Chattanooga, TN. The entire chancel area was remodeled to accommodate two free-standing organ cases on either side of the church's stained glass window. The two cases, each 17' wide x 28' tall, were built from walnut with applied walnut moldings. A new moveable console was built of mahogany with clear maple dividers, and features MIDI, playback/record, multilevel combination memory and transposer.

A.E. Schlueter Pipe Organ Company, Lithonia, GA, has built a new Choir division for the organ at St. John's in the Wilderness, Flat Rock, NC. The church's current organ (1989) is located in the rear of the church, while the choir and organist are in the front. Provision was made for a Choir division to be located in the front. The new Choir was designed to lead congregational singing and accompany the choir. To achieve these goals, the Principal 8' forms the facade with the remaining ranks under expression.

Wigton Pipe Organs, Inc., Dryden, MI, has built a new organ, opus 20, for Sts. Cyril & Methodius Catholic Church of Sterling Heights, MI. The free-standing case was placed near the main axis of the diamond-shaped church, which seats about 300. Use of valuable sanctuary floor space was minimized by designing a small pedestal for the organ, and by placing the Pedal stops and wind system in a shallow chamber behind the back wall. The case is made of rift- and quarter-sawn white oak, with pegged mortise-and-tenon joints.

John-Paul Buzard Pipe Organ Builders, Champaign, IL, has built a new organ for First Congregational Church, Crystal Lake, IL: opus 16, 18 stops, 24 ranks. Although the original church was built in 1867, this is the congregation's first pipe organ. The first instrument was a reed organ which served faithfully for nearly 100 years. The reed organ's handsome case was made into the church's pulpit, still in use today. A Hammond electronic instrument followed, which the new pipe organ replaces.

Bedient Organ Company, Lincoln, NE, has built a new organ for the Episcopal Church of the Epiphany, Atlanta, GA. The firm's opus 54 comprises 14 stops, 16 ranks, and 849 pipes on two manuals and pedal. Key action is mechanical, stop action is electric. Manual/pedal compass is 58/30. The case is made of oak, and the pipe shades are of red gum. The organ was installed in April 1997 and the dedication took place in October. Organist of the church is Patrick Hagen; the pastor is The Rev. Clayborne Jones.

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H. J. Ebert Organ Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church, Plum Borough,
Pennsylvania

Paul Fritts & Co. Organ Builders,
style='font-weight:normal'> Tacoma, WA, has built a new organ for Grace
Lutheran Church, also in Tacoma. The two-manual and pedal instrument is positioned high against the ceiling of the balcony. The pipes of both manual keyboards play from the same wind-chests positioned at impost level of the case. This allows a compact design for the case and necessary height for the full length string, the Gemshorn 8' playable from manual II. Also, the Rohrflöte 8' is able to play without restrictions from both keyboards.

John-Paul Buzard Pipe Organ Builders, Champaign, IL, has built a new organ for Immanuel Lutheran Church, Wisconsin Rapids, WI. The 2-manual, 23-stop, 30-rank organ is the firm's opus 14, with electric slider key and stop actions, and replaces a Wangerin built in 1922. The design includes a Flute Celeste, in which two pipesare made in one pipe body, and a Major Tuba, mounted horizontally atop the main case. The builder selected the best pipes from the old organ, rebuilt and revoiced for the new tonal context.

Karl Wilhelm, Inc., of Mont St-Hilaire, Québec, Canada, has built a new organ, opus 135, for Trinity Episcopal Church, Covington, KY. Karl Wilhelm conceived the design, participated in its construction, and supervised the project. The cabinetry was by Sylvain Parent. Wind chests were made by Claude Godbout. Some of the hammered metal pipes were made by Luc Ladurantaye; console and mechanics were by Claude Chauvin; the latter two assisted Karl Wilhelm with the erection of the instrument.