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On this page we'd like to showcase the range of our work by listing examples of our major projects.
 
You can click on the following links for pictures and descriptions of some of our instruments:
 

Opus 20: Sts. Cyril & Methodius

Opus 23: St. Philip's Episcopal

Opus 24: Martha-Mary Chapel

Opus 27: Holy Rosary R.C.

Here is a list of most of our major organ projects:
 

1.         c. 1975             Private Owner

                                    37-note table organ                          

                                    (wooden Gedackt)

 

2.         1978                (Melrose & Wigton, Inc.) Sub-contracts for Wm.

                                   Worden, Detroit:                                            

 

                                    Most Holy Trinity R.C., Detroit

                                    Rebuild of 1867 Andreas Moeller; 2-19 stops

                                   

                                    Christ Lutheran, Milford, MI

                                    Rebuild of Hinners #559; 2-13 stops

 

3.         1978                (Melrose & Wigton, Inc.)

                                    Bethany Ev. Lutheran Church, Orange, MA

                                    Rebuild of Estey #601; 2-9 stops

 

4.                                                       Private Owner

49-note table organ (wooden Gedackt)

(Begun much earlier, completed in 1984)

 

5.         1979                Private residence, Westerville, OH

Restoration of 1888 Miller (Lebanon, PA); 1-5 stops

 

6.         1979                First United Methodist, Richwood, OH

                                    Rebuild of 1903 Lyon & Healy #145; 2-7 stops

 

7.         1979                Bethany Lutheran, Okolona, OH

Rebuild of  1910 Henry Pilcher's Sons #694; 2-10 stops

 

8.         1981                St. Mary Queen of Creation R.C., New Baltimore,

                                    MI 

                                    Manual chests from J.W. Steere #358, new case,

                                    electric Pedal; 2-26 stops

 

9.         1982                Trinity Episcopal, Roslyn, L.I., NY

Rebuild of 1910 Hinners from St. Francis R.C., Traverse City; 2-20 stops

 

10.       1984                St. Joseph R.C., Fremont, OH

                                    Rebuild of 1892 Farrand & Votey

                                    Electric stop action, third manual for coupling;   

                                    2-37 stops              

                                   

11.       1984                St. John's-St. Luke U.C.C., Detroit

                                    Restoration of 1874 G.F. Votteler; 2-20 stops

 

12.       1990                (Old) St. Mary's R.C., Detroit

Mechanical key action, electric stop action; 3-52 stops

 

13.       1985                First Congregational, Romeo, MI

Rebuild of Casavant (Hebert?) with 1939 Casavant pitman chests

Some pipes from the original c.1890 Farrand & Votey; 2-14 stops

 

14.       1985                St. John's Episcopal, Chester, VA

Rebuild of S.S. Hamill, c.1885 from Cambridge, MA (its second home);

                                    2-15 stops

 

15.       1986                St. Michael R.C., Southfield, MI

                                    Rebuild of 1907 Hinners #730; 2-16 stops

 

16.       1992                St. Paul Lutheran, South Bend, IN

Rebuild of 1906 Henry Pilcher's Sons #564; 2-18 stops

 

17.       1993                St. John Neumann R.C., Canton, MI

                                    Rebuild of  1885 Carl Barckhoff, Salem, OH

                                    New console, case and pedal chests;  2-26 stops

 

18.       1992                St. Thomas à Becket R.C., Canton, MI

                                    Electric slider; 2-14 stops

 

19.       1994                St. Nicholas R.C., Capac, MI

Rebuild of 30's or 40's Casavant-Hebert from Assumption Church, Detroit

                                    Pitman chests;  2-17 stops

 

20.       1996                Sts. Cyril & Methodius R.C., Sterling Heights, MI

                                    All mechanical; 2-15 stops

 

21.       2004                Private Residence

"Ghent altarpiece" organ; 1-3 stops

(Begun much earlier)

 

 

22.       1998                Zion Lutheran, Freeland, MI

Rebuild of 1969 Hillgreen-Lane, electropneumatic unit chests;

Addition of 1880's Granville Wood slider chest for Great; 2-13 stops

 

23.       1998                St. Philip's Episcopal, Rochester, MI

Rebuild of 1967 Möller #9886, enlarged with new façade; 2-14 stops

 

24.       2000                Martha Mary Chapel, Greenfield Village       

                                    Dearborn, MI

                                    All mechanical; 2-10 stops (either-or)

 

25.       2001                St. Jane Frances de Chantel R.C.       

                                    Sterling Heights, MI

                                    Rebuild of 1967 Casavant; electropneumatic;

                                    2-23 stops

 

26.       2003                Christ the Redeemer R.C.                   

                                    Lake Orion, MI           

                                    Rebuild of  70’s Gabriel Kney and    

                                    80’s Petty-Madden; mechanical manuals, electric slider pedal; 2-23 stops

 

27.        2004               Holy Rosary R.C.

                                    Cedar, MI

                                    Rebuild of Hinners #2329(case) and Hinners

                                    #1882; mechanical manuals, electric pedal

                                    2-12 stops                  

 

28.         2004              St. Patrick R.C.

                                    Wyandotte, MI

                                    Rebuild of 1927 Votteler-Holtkamp-Sparling

                                    And 1964 J.A.Hebert & Son

                                    Mechanical manuals, electric pedal

                                    2-20 stops                              

                                       

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