Designing an organ for your space includes knowing its intended use; church, home, studio or concert hall. Visually, we respect the architectural and decorative design of your space and compliment it with an appropriate pipe facade and casework. Tonally, the rooms acoustical features inform the tonal design of the instrument. Our pipe designs are particularly well paired with human voices and orchestral instruments. Integration of all these elements leads to a satisfying aesthetic experience.

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Easily portable, self-contained instrument.
Three stops: Gedeckt 8, Flute 4, Principal 2
Ideal for chamber music, small chapel,
home and outdoor weddings.

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A 14 stop tracker organ, the Phoenix has beautiful ribbon strip mahogany casework and custom basswood carvings. From the pipes to the wind chests and casework, this organ was all handmade here at Bedient by dedicated craftsman. A unique limited time offer at an incredible value. Contact us for immediate delivery and installation. Call or email us and let’s start the conversation!

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We’ve been solving problems like these for satisfied clients for more than 35 years. Bedient service technicians know how to thoroughly inspect an instrument, explain the work that needs to be done and how much it will cost. Your pipe organ is just like your own home, if properly maintained, it can last for generations. If your instrument sounds like it needs attention, please call us.

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The location for our Opus 37 wasn’t the only new feature being recognized during the dedication ceremony at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Berlin, NH this May.

The organ’s four facade doors, originally designed to protect pipes, now showcase paintings by Berlin artist Andre Belanger.  Andre describes the project,

“The images on these doors of the Bedient Organ Opus 37 are inspired by a concept that was stated at the time of the commission for the work:  angels playing instruments and making music.  There are artsy elements involved: color, rhythm, balance, harmony, movement, texture, dynamics, all words that one would expect in a music/painting composition.  But, math, geometry, fractal geometry, sacred geometry are actively at work here, as well.  The placement of angels, halos, instruments, hands, animals in the landscape, are positioned at key intersections of lines in the composition according to a concept often referred to as the The Golden Section, or The Golden Rectangle, or The Golden Mean, a constant proportion of square to rectangle that exists in nature virtually everywhere.  Like calculating the circumference of a circle using pi, this proportional measurement uses phi in its calculation.  It is often referred to as The Divine Measurement.

Note that there are halos around each angel, and halos around both a book and a scroll.  There are different colors bordering different groups of halos.  Hands gesture and are placed in mathematically chosen positions.  Eyes are symbolically opened or closed.  There are two angels, one with a hand held organ, one with a viola da gamba.  There is a metamorphosis from birds to angels.  Some angels are singing, some are not.  Wing gesture and color is significant.  Subtle skin tones play a part.  clothing is also important.  The instruments are inspired by Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque instruments.  The work is adorned with 23k gold leaf and pure silver leaf. The number of silver sections is  symbolic.  Suspended in the paint in two of the panels is a ground shell from the Sea of Galilee, some olive wood particles from Jerusalem and some earth from Berlin, NH.  If one examines this piece closely, many conscious decisions will surface.  The greatest part of the painting is that, if the viewer chooses to look deeply enough, one will perceive ‘the artist in all of us’.”

The dedication concludes an unsually mobile two years for the organ, which we first installed in Kingston, OK in 1993.  In 2008 we relocated the organ to Berlin, NH, after its owners, Dr. Susan Ferre’ and her husband moved to the neighboring town of Gorham, NH.  Ferre had loaned the organ and other vintage instruments to Chapel Arts, a private performance space and art gallery.  We then moved the 10 stop tracker organ to St. Barnabas in 2009 where Susan serves as organist.

Susan said, “since 1993 when the organ was made we had looked for the right artist to paint something celestial (perhaps angels holding instruments), or something pointing to history, but had not found the right person until we saw the work of Ander Belanger.  It happens by accident that his shop is located very near the church where the organ is now located…”

See more photos of the event here.

Bedient crew members Chad Johnson and Fred Zander installed two new sets of pipes–Great Trompete 8 and Swell Clarion 4.  Much of the building process for those pipes, made by our craftsmen, Duane Grosse and Eric Smith, can be seen on the Bedient Pipe Organ Facebook album: “Pipemaking”.

Chad and Fred also moved an existing Great Trompette to Swell, upgraded the organ’s memory system, regulated flue and reed pipes and tuned the organ.

Fred is seen here working on the Schlicker console.