Benedictine Organ Building

Nathan_the_Organist

I saw this article this morning. I thought you guys would find it interesting

ServiamScores

(You forgot to post the link!)

GerardH

There's an article here, not sure if it's the only one.

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254782/benedictines-in-the-us-return-to-organ-building

Bombarde16

Very excited for Kevin Vogt. I studied with him at KU and Continue as one of his private students now. I can't wait to see all this come to fruition!

Nathan_the_Organist

I could have sworn I put it in there. Thanks for posting it Gerard.

a_f_hawkins

This is from the abbey's woodwork blog - https://sjawood.org/blog/why-build-organs-in-collegeville.
And a progress report https://saintjohnsabbey.org/blog/11/11/2022/abbey-woodworking-and-pasi-organ-builders-update

RMSawicki

As my late organbuilding colleague, Joseph Johann Karl Ritter II (1940-2011), used to say....

"It ain't a proper organ shop unless the boss has a bible stand in his office with a copy of 'Dom Bedos' sittin' on it"!

:-D. :-D. :-D

Gaudete in Domino Semper!

lmassery

This is certainly cool, but what really is the significance of this? Does it signify a new trend toward pipe organs in American Catholicism? It doesn’t look like their organs will be any less expensive than other companies.

ServiamScores

Just the revival of a tradition, and secondarily that it is associated with a university where, presumably, a new generation of builders can be fostered from among the student population.

As a former student of the now-defunct American Organ Institute at the University of Oklahoma, I’m quite pleased to see this arrangement pick up the torch, as it were.

francis

I had the Pasi at my post years ago (turquoise tracker toward the bottom of the page.) By far the most exquisite organ I ever had.

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