Project Gallery
Shown here are some examples of projects we have worked on. The scope is large, ranging from rescaling pipes to complete new organs within the old case or chamber.
The Workshop
Many times the work needs to be done in a wood shop rather than in the church. Our office and shop in Maple Grove is where we construct wind chests, repair and clean pipes, do wiring and voicing. Illustrated here is a selection of ...
St Luke Water Damage
Following a particularly snowy Minnesota winter, the Spring thaw revealed an unknown leak in the roof at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Minneapolis. The water found its way into a part of the organ in the chancel where the 16' Bourdon ...
Faith Rescaling
We were called in to evaluate a very small organ at Faith Lutheran in Prior Lake. Various electronic organ salesmen had declared the organ dead. In just a few hours we resurrected it. It was just in need of a standard service call. We ...
Cashton
St. Mary's Ridge outside of Cashton, WI is a beautiful church that has been restored to original 19th Century splendor. The final piece was to resurrect the Schaefer organ, which had been mute for 20 years. Using all of the original ...
River Falls First UCC
The organ at First Congregational in River Falls is in a chamber under the church tower. With two walls and ceiling exposed to the outside air, the chamber was always incredibly cold in the winter and the organ would not stay in tune. ...
FBC
First Baptist Church in St. Paul, very close to the I-94/I-35E intersection ("Spaghetti Junction") is a very old and historic church with a Steere and Turner organ from the late 19th Century. Over its lifetime, this organ has been revised ...
Cross of Glory
Cross of Glory Lutheran Church, Brooklyn Park,MN. The organist's complaints about difficulty of seeing stop names and piston numbers was the start of what turned into a large project. Ultimately many ranks were moved around and revoiced to get better ensembles. A missing tremulant was added; swell shades were modified ...
St Timothy Lutheran
St. Timothy Lutheran, St. Paul, MN. This organ had received complaints ever since it was installed in the late 1960's. While well built, it simply did not have enough variety to fulfill musical requirements, and every organist had complained. We stood back and did some "root cause analysis" to determine what was ...
First Congregational, Eau Claire
First Congregational UCC, Eau Claire, WI. We were brought in on an emergency service call to do some pre-concert tuning. We found this large organ terribly out of tune with itself. The pastor proudly told us the organ had been serviced annually, so he and the congregation were shocked when we presented a report with a ...
Peace Lutheran
Peace Lutheran Church, Plymouth, MN. Originally a tracker organ by Marklove, this organ had found its way to Peace with some pedal stops from First Presbyterian in Rochester (Reuter). We found some pipes were missing, many pipes were leaning, voicing was desperately needed, an added Trumpet was too loud for the rest ...
Concordia University, Buetow Concert Hall
Concordia University, St Paul, MN, Buetow Memorial Concert Hall, Schlicker tracker action organ. Designed by Paul Manz who taught here, this was one of Schlicker's flagship instruments, located in a concert hall with dismally bad acoustics. A memorial gift sparked interest in a visual and acoustic renovation, which ...
Gethsemane Lutheran
Gethsemane Lutheran Church, Hopkins, MN. The Reuter organ at Gethsemane was installed in the early 1960's and was prepared for addition of a Choir division. When organist Joan Elander was tragically killed in a hit and run accident while walking with her husband, that knowledge was lost and the organ has remained ...
St Martin's Episcopal
St Martin's Episcopal Church, Minnetonka Beach, MN. An otherwise well built tracker organ by John Nordlie has suffered the typical effects of age. The stop and combination actions had become unreliable. Swell shades originally enclosing the Great (except for the facade 8' Principal) had been removed early on and ...