Charles Ruggles is the subject of a recent thesis on his career, written by Mark A. Herris as part of the requirements for Herris’s Doctor of Music degree from Indiana University (https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/20810). Ruggles recently celebrated 42 years of designing and building mechanical-action organs. Ruggles’s work has been reviewed in numerous magazines and journals.
Ruggles studied organbuilding with John Brombaugh in Middletown, Ohio. In September 1975 he began building mechanical-action organs under his own name in his workshop in Cleveland Heights. In September 1981 he moved his workshop and residence to Olmsted Falls, Ohio, and in 1995 moved his residence and workshop to Conifer, Colorado. He is a member of the American Institute of Organbuilders and the International Society of Organbuilders.
For information: www.rugglesorgans.com.
