We are highly motivated to work with clients to achieve an organ appearance that both fulfills musical goals and complements the aesthetics of the space.  Organs, of course, have functional pipe facades but the case is as much a contributor as any other aspect as it focuses and shapes the sound of the thousands of pipes along with providing the structure that supports the wind chests, wind system the organized divisions, as they are called.  The organ itself is housed within this free-standing case structure.

Designing and building an organ in house from raw materials as we do gives us a wide range of freedom to do anything. We strive to build distinctive modern instruments that meet today’s musical demands yet aim to emulate the best qualities of the great historic instruments. When we add various inventions such as an effective swell box and various French Symphonic stops the organs become diverse in a disciplined way.

The pipes and their voicing are the heart of the organ.  Much care goes into this and we have been making all our pipes entirely in the workshop from raw materials since 1983.  Eleven years ago, we implemented, exclusively now in the US, a method dating from ancient times of casting tin-lead alloy pipe metal over a bed of sand.  The rapid cooling of the metal on the sand (about fifteen times faster) promotes a smaller crystalline structure than modern casting methods.  This has a decisive impact on supporting the vibrating column of air inside a pipe and contributes to the refinement of pipe speech, enabling the sustained tone to remain full yet colorful.  

Sandcast metal works hand in hand with informed construction and voicing techniques and this contributes to an expanded variety of stop combinations and a gentle yet satisfying marriage of the organ to the listener and literature.  The reed pipes are entirely made in our workshop and feature aspects of construction that contribute to the organ sound with fast speech and colorful yet refined tone.

Our preferred method of key action is suspended; that is, the weight of each key is held up by the valves (wind chest pallets) via a direct mechanical connection, a time-proven method that keeps connections tight and thereby promotes responsiveness and long-term durability.  The mechanical stop action is fitted with solenoids and multi memory level pre-set system on larger instruments.  This means that the mechanical aspects of the organ, designed and built to last centuries, will not be compromised by the electronic computer systems with limited life expectancy.