From top: Ty and Chad Johnson disassemble the Schlicker.  Ed Stibal refurbishes the Brombaugh.  Fred Zander and Ed pack the trailer. Four flood-damaged pipe organs are on the road to recovery following their extraction from the University of Iowa’s Voxman Music Building in late August. The... Read more...

Posted on August 28th, 2008 by Jon
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   Lincoln, Nebraska started the International Year of the Organ festivities in prestigious fashion this summer by hosting the first ever Advanced edition of the AGO’s famed Pipe Organ Encounters.  Eighteen of the best teenage organists in the country were selected for this event by submitting... Read more...

Posted on August 18th, 2008 by Jon
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    When the Iowa River escaped its banks in June, the University of Iowa stood directly in its path.  Floodwaters poured into The Voxman Music Building (shown above) soaking four pipe organs in 18 inches of water: Taylor & Boody, Schlicker, Brombaugh and Holtkamp (shown with water line above). As... Read more...

Posted on August 14th, 2008 by Jon
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   The August 2008 edition of The American Organist features our Opus 81, First Congregational Church, Sioux Falls, SD.  Here’s an excerpt from the article: “It was common in earlier times of organbuilding history for organbuilders to incorporate former organs into a new instrument. Look... Read more...

Posted on August 12th, 2008 by Jon
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  Gene Bedient delivered and assembled Opus 82 in the home of Elaine Mann in Chippewa Falls, WI, in early August. Elaine is organist for Grace Lutheran Church in Eau Claire, WI.  Despite the residential size of the organ, Elaine’s friends had to be enlisted to help move the top portion of the... Read more...

Posted on August 7th, 2008 by Jon
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