St. Peters Church, Lorain Ohio

Organist/Co Builder: Joe Sechkar

Co Builder: Jeremy Lumby

Voicing: Sean Estanek

The Morning Journal's article about the organ

The original pipe organ was installed in the early 1960's
During the summer of 1992 the project to rebuild the failing Ruhland organ began.

The original organ had very few salvageable parts. The restoration project turned into building a new organ.

Construction began behind the aluminum grillwork. The first parts to be constructed were a new free standing centrally located swell chamber, as well as the Positiv on the right, and the Great on the left.

These 2 crazy guys are responsible for all of the design and construction of the new organ.

We obtained used pipes from many different locations, and refinished them to match the new organ.

The new organ has an Antiphonal section designed to accompany the choir. The antiphonal was carefully designed and balanced so it will stand on its own 5' pentagon base without requiring any support from the building.

This is the completed hardware and layout of the main organ. Even though all of the pipes are in place, there still remains a lot of work to be done to control the pipes.

The new organ has openings on 3 sides of the swell chamber so it can project evenly into the 3 sections of the cruciform church. Recently the church was remodeled, during this remodeling, the grillwork was removed, and the balcony was extended.

These new keyboards and pedal board are being built into the new console.

The new console has the latest technology including MIDI, so it can communicate with any other MIDI device

The new console after it has been stained and finished.

The Back side of the stop controls (electro magnets to activate the presets).

The Main computer control board

The Driver Boards

This solid state control by Classic Organ Works will be used to control the entire organ. By going with a solid state control we are drastically reducing the amount of maintenance that would be necessary in the future. Since there are no moving parts, there are no contacts to get dirty, or go out of alignment. Not to mention that there will be no noticeable time delay like most electro-pneumatic organs have.

Sean voicing one of the Great 4' Octave pipes

Steven Stransky taking a pipe apart for voicing.

The console is finally being moved into the church

IT MADE IT!!!

Check out the final Stop List!