Columbia Organ Works

Columbia Organ Works would like to thank Fr. Lawrence Ford and Peter Adamcyzk, director of music, for choosing us to begin the first segment of a phased restoration of the 4-manual, 76 rank M. P. Moller pipe organ installed in Holy Name of Jesus - St. Gregory the Great Church in the City of New York. This instrument was built under the direction of Richard Whitelegg in 1937.

The case pipes of this 1840 Thomas Appleton organ were recently gilded in 23K Gold by Mary Lou Davis of Woodstock, CT. They are the crowning touch as this organ nears completion in Columbia Organ Works' erecting room.

Columbia Organ Works is pleased to be a part of the restoration of this fabulous organ. Virtually all of the thousands of leather components used for the restoration have been made using our products. Columbia Organ Works was thrilled to restore the windchests for the Swell and Swell-Choir divisions over the past few years. Be sure to watch this informative broadcast about the organ from NBC News,.

Columbia Organ Works is pleased to have been commissioned to restore and install this wonderful organ built by Thomas Appleton in 1840. The work is being done for Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Originally commissioned for the Perkins School for the Blind (the alma mater of Helen Keller), it was installed there in January of 1840. At the time the organ was being planned, the renowned composer-organist, Lowell Mason, was p...rofessor of organ at the Perkins School. In 1865, the Hook brothers built a new and larger organ for Perkins and accepted the Appleton organ in trade. They soon moved it to the Baptist Church of Bidderford, Maine. John and Linda Shortridge purchased the instrument from the Bidderford Church in 1979 and restored it in an historically informed manner. The organ is scheduled for installation on the Rutgers University's campus in the fall of 2019. See more

Complete organ console renovation with installation of Syndyne 8400 control system at Immanuel United Church of Christ, Shillington, PA. Video demonstrates MIDI record/playback function. Austin Organs opus 2331. Completed by Columbia Organ Works in 2017

Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington. DC. Cleaned and releathered by Columbia Organ Works in conjunction with Organ Curator Bard B. Wickkiser of Baltimore, MD.