New Organs

Noack Organ Company, Georgetown, Massachusetts

Richard Houghten,
Milan, Michigan
Church of the Incarnation,
Dallas, Texas

C. B. Fisk, Inc., Gloucester, Massachusetts, Opus 146

Chapel of the Holy Spirit, 

Christ Church, Glendale, Ohio

Kegg Pipe Organ Builders, Hartville, Ohio

Our Lady of Fatima Church, Lafayette, Louisiana 

Mander Organs, 

London, England

Bigelow & Co. Organ Builders, American Fork, Utah

First United Methodist Church, Salt Lake City, Utah

Dobson Pipe Organ Builders, Lake City, Iowa, Opus 92

The Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall, Vanderbilt University,

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!