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Mount Pleasant Lutheran Church (ELCA), Racine, WI.
“The Space Ship Church”
33 Stops, 40 Ranks across three manuals and pedal.
Second Presbyterian Church, Bloomington, IL.
43 Stops, 56 Ranks across three manuals and pedal.
Our Calling
St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church, San Antonio, TX.
35 Stops, 43 Ranks across three manuals and pedal.
Electric Slider action. Completed 2009
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e are all committed to designing and building the best pipe organs in the world and
providing the best workmanship possible in the restoration, rebuilding, and care of
existing pipe organs.
We want to share our passion for our work with you. From the day we begin discussing your
instrument until the day we have completed the finish-voicing, you will be impressed by how
our commitment translates into building you the best pipe organ possible.
We have fun and take real pride in our work, and we would love to share our joy with you, as
your new Buzard organ comes to life. You are going to be very comfortable with us!
Member Firm
Associated Pipe Organ Builders of America
Buzard Pipe Organ Builders
John-Paul Buzard,
President & Artistic Director
112 West Hill Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820
phone:
(217) 352-1955
(217) 352-1981
toll free: (800) 397 3103
email: [email protected]
fax:
www.buzardorgans.com
www.apoba.com
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We know who we are.
We are artists and engineers,
dreamers and pragmatists,
conceptualists and perfectionists.
First Presbyterian Church, Lexington, KY.
1897 Kimball Organ, rebuilt by Buzard 2007
Service Department Foreman, David Brown,
prepares to hand plane a windchest grid.
Tonal Director, Brian K. Davis, and his assistant
solders pipe hooks on façade Diapason pipe.
About us and our work
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e believe that pipe organs are a
medium for artistic expression.
Your new Buzard organ will
honor and marry itself to your building’s
architecture, as well as its acoustical
environment. When you commission us to
restore or rebuild your existing pipe organ, we
respect the good work which has gone before
us, and are extraordinarily sensitive to the
original builder’s intent. If the existing organ
has lost its artistic focus, we have the unique
ability to recapture its integrity, combining
sensitivity to the organ’s history with our
knowledge of modern musical requirements.
to life through my artistic vision, the solid
engineering know-how of Charles Eames, the
tonal suavity and refinement brought to each
organ by Brian Davis, and the labors lavished
upon the instrument by my staff.
Our team of experienced crafts persons is
well versed in the languages of woodworking
and finishing, metalworking, organ pipe
making and voicing, and all the trades which
come together to make a well-rounded
organbuilder. Your instrument will come
Our firm provides our talented and hardworking staff with salaries and benefits which
afford a measure of dignity in modern living.
We provide health care, dental care, long and
short term disability and life insurance, as well
as an employer contributive 401(k) retirement
Our organs represent real musical and
financial value, no matter what economy we
find ourselves in. Engineered and built to
last for 100+ years, and backed with a solid
long-term warranty, our instruments will
stand the test of time, becoming a permanent
investment in your ministry, your educational
institution, or concert venue.
plan. The cost for these benefits, considered
essential in other professions, is included in
the cost of our American made instruments.
I personally guarantee that one of our
pipe organs will be a powerful tool in your
church’s evangelism. Congregational
singing will explode through the roof. I can
also guarantee that you will enjoy the entire
process when you commission a Buzard Pipe
Organ, and that we will develop life-long
friendships, from contract signing through
installation and voicing!
John-Paul
John-Paul Buzard,
President and Artistic Director
Buzard Pipe Organ Builders, LLC
www.buzardorgans.com