Why build this instrument?

              Remove directional grillework, expose pipework

             Existing pipe organ inferior…slavage only a few sets of pipes

New instrument:

            Start June 7, 1992…Remove residence organ built by Robert Stilgenbauer Sr.. Parts from this organ to be used in the new organ.  Orginally a 6 rank Estey organ from the Christ United Methodist Church in Lorain.

              End of summer 1992…dismantle and remove existing Ruhland organ.  Build the central two story swell chamber.  Install direct electric pipe valves in existing windchests.  Releather pressure regulators.  Refinish wood pipes

              Remove organ from Notre Dame Educational Center Chapel, Chardon, Ohio.  Salvage good pipework, recondition windchests and regulators.  Apply copper finish to façade pipes.

             Install P. C. Campana memorial Trompette en Chamade…polished zinc pipes designed by Organ Supply Industries, Erie, PA.  Fanfare trumpets that are mounted horizontally.

              Two day trip to Traverse City, Michigan to pick up Austin 16’ open wood pipes and windchests.  Father Pat Henry, Associate Pastor, drives the 24’ diesel truck!

              The Antiphonal Organ is built in the south transept of the church behind and above the choir seats.  This is a complete 15 rank organ playable from the 5 manual console.

              Transport donated organ pipes from Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, Cleveland, OH.  Nice pipework to be used in the new organ.

             Dismantle and remove organ from Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, Lyndhurst, OH.  A good portion of these pipe to be used in the Antiphonal organ.

             The five manual console is designed and built.  Keyboards, pedalbord, and 231 stop controls acquired from Organ Supply Industries, Erie, PA..  The computerized control system from Classic Organ Works of Toronto is incorporated into the new organ.

              New organ played for the first time on Easter Sunday, 2002.

              Voicing and final tuning to be completed by the fall of 2002.

            This organ make use of parts from:

                        St. Mary, Lorain

                        St. Anthony, Lorain

                        Christ United Methodist, Lorain

                        First Presbyterian, Wooster

                        First Baptist, East Cleveland

                        Good Shepherd Episcopal, Lyndhurst

                        (and other churches and institutions)