This week we will move a 40 year old Allen Digital Organ to our parish hall, to be replaced by what we believe is the last instrument designed by Walter S. Holtkamp, Sr. But even today, the Allen Organ Co. will provide factory parts for that instrument. It has served well and is much more pleasant to play than a 4-rank unit organ scaled for a swell-box in the 1920's and "redesigned" as an unenclosed instrument in the 1980's.
As I look forward to our "new" pipe organ, I'm thankful to have had the Allen until we could find and install the Holtkamp.
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