Kegg Pipe Organ Builders, Hartville, Ohio, has completed the rebuilding and enlargement of Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1416 of 1960 for the Church of the Heavenly Rest, Abilene, Texas.
In addition to the restoration of most of the organ’s original mechanism, the project included augmenting the Swell, revoicing and augmenting the Great, enclosing and augmenting the Positif (Choir), augmenting the Pedal, and providing a new custom console with a prepared Antiphonal division. The church’s music director is Thomas Pavlechko.
For information: keggorgan.com.
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