Custom Built Church Organs are specifically designed and voiced for the individual customers home, concert hall or church.
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In early 2017, we visited Dr David Flood, Organist and Director of Music at Canterbury Cathedral to discuss the provision of a temporary digital organ to help provide cover while the pipe organ was being rebuilt by Harrison & Harrison as part of The Cathedral’s Organ Project. To find out more and support the project, which…
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In early 2017, we visited Dr David Flood, Organist & Director of Music at Canterbury Cathedral to discuss the provision of a temporary Digital Organ to help provide cover while the Pipe Organ was being rebuilt by Harrison & Harrison. We suggest you visit the Canterbury Cathedral website to find out more about the Cathedral…
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2015 saw us receiving an order from the United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE) for 20 single manual instruments. This was certainly the largest order by instrument numbers we had ever received if not the largest by value! In this post I share more about our valued relationship with this customer. Background to the work…
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Reverberation adds to the experience Room acoustics strongly affect how we perceive any musical instrument, and this is especially so with the organ. Most often we listen to an organ in a reverberant church space and consequently become accustomed to the signature that reverberation adds to the experience. A large organ without a reverberant acoustic…
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Choosing a digital organ In December 2015, we were asked to bring an organ across the water to allow St Joseph’s Church to evaluate the merits of our ‘physical modelling’ solution for digital organ voices. The journey itself was quite a challenge as we only had a few weeks’ notice. The organ and 22 speaker…
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Pipe Organ or Digital Organ? The chapel pipe organ was installed in 1904 by William Hill, one of the ‘Great Three’ British builders, the others being Harrison and Willis. That said this particular Hill was never one of his finer instruments and was substantially rebuilt in 1934 by the successor firm of Hill Norman &…
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A new Digital Organ after tragedy strikes We had the opportunity to start work with Normanton Baptist Church in 2015 when they were looking for a new bespoke digital organ to fit their newly refurbished interior. But let’s start from the beginning… Tragedy struck this church in October 2009 when arsonists set fires in two…
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Why not listen to this digital organ as you read? Click here for some Mendelssohn. There is another link further down the page. I expect when it comes to custom built digital organs this will be one of the smallest that we are ever commissioned to make. It is far more usual for a church with a…
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