Andover Organ Company was founded in 1948 as a result of the Andover Organ Institute, a summer school held at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, which reintroduced mechanical, or tracker, action organs into the USA. The company began modestly by maintaining and rebuilding old tracker organs and was one of the first to begin saving 18th and 19th century American organs.

In 1959 Andover built one of the first new tracker organs by a US firm since the 1930s. In 1964 we carried out the world’s first re-trackerization of an electrified tracker organ.

Over our 60+ year history, we have become experts in the restoration of organs by many builders. We have rebuilt or restored over 450 organs, while building over 100 new instruments. Examples of our work can be found throughout the United States. A year’s typical production is several rebuilds, tonal revisions and restorations plus one or two new organs.

Along with building, rebuilding and restorations, we maintain over 300 organs throughout the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Southeast. We have a reputation for quality work and meticulous craftsmanship. Our employees have collectively a total of over 350 years of organbuilding experience; half of them are church musicians.

The Board

Donald H. Olson, President
Benjamin G. Mague, Treasurer
Michael W. Eaton, Clerk
Matthew Bellocchio
John Morlock
Felicia Morlock
Robert C. Newton
Robert J. Reich
Jonathan Ross
Craig Seaman

Staff Profiles

Matthew Bellocchio
Matthew joined Andover in 2003, having spent 28 years at Roche Organ Company in Taunton MA, 3 years in Portland, OR with Marceau & Associates and Bond Organ Company, and 2 years with Parson Pipe Organs in Canandaigua, NY. He holds a BA degree from St. Francis College, studied architecture at Pratt Institute and served as a church organist in New York and Massachusetts. He has studied historic organs and architecture in America, England, Europe and Mexico. At Andover, Matthew is a designer, a Project Team Leader, and leads the Berkshires-to-Buffalo maintenance team.

Matthew is a charter member of the American Institute of Organbuilders (AIO) and holds the AIO Fellow Certificate. He served on the AIO Board of Directors 1993-1997, chaired the AIO Education Committee 1997-2009, and in 2010 was re-elected to the AIO Board. In 2009 he received the AIO Otto Hoffman Literary Prize. Matthew has lectured on organ building and design at national conventions of the AIO, the American Guild of Organists, and the Organ Historical Society (OHS). He co-chaired the OHS 2005 Southeastern Massachusetts Convention. Matthew and his wife Lisa first met at the AIO 1979 Boston convention! They live in Haverhill, MA and have a grown daughter.

Anne J. Doré
Anne came to Andover in 1983 as secretary. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems and a Graduate Certificate in Accounting from Southern New Hampshire University. Now Office Manager, she is responsible for HR, bookkeeping, payroll and computer systems. She and her husband Rod have two grown daughters.

Michael W. Eaton
Michael joined the staff at Andover in 1991. He enjoys designing organs with AutoCAD and leads one of the company's tuning and maintenance teams. In addition, Michael specializes in slider windchests and mechanical key actions. He also serves as Clerk for Andover's Board of Directors. Studying at the New England Conservatory with Yuko Hayashi and William Porter, Michael graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in Organ Performance. Michael has served as a church musician for nearly 30 years in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and North Carolina. He is currently Organist at the historic Church of the Pilgrimage in Plymouth, MA. Michael lives in Weymouth, MA with his wife Katherine and their children Mary and William.

Donald Glover
Don joined Andover in 2004 as a voicer specializing in reeds. Before this, he worked as a voicer at the Reuter Organ Co. of Lawrence, KS. He also taught choral music in his native Texas. Don has studied the art of reed voicing with several American and European specialists. His reeds are greatly admired by our tuners for their ability to stay in tune! He has also served many churches as organist/choral director, most notably Grace Episcopal Cathedral in Topeka, KS. Since moving to the Northeast, Don has retired from regular church work and is enjoying substituting in several area churches and simply being a "congregant." He and his partner live in Salem, MA.

Lisa Lucius
Lisa has been Andover’s Administrative Assistant since 2002 and now also serves as our Maintenance Coordinator. She is the voice on the other end of the phone when you call us. Lisa grew up in Brattleboro, Vermont, home of the Estey Organ Company. She has been a flutist for twenty-six years and is currently a member of the Merrimack Valley Flute Choir and the Lexington (MA) Bicentennial Band. She also enjoys singing in her church choir. Lisa and her husband Matt live in Nashua, NH, with their calico cat, Princess Jamaica.

Benjamin G. Mague
After a 4 1/2 year stint in the U.S. Navy as a Chaplain’s Yeoman, Ben came to Andover in 1975. Prior to that he received a Master of Music degree in organ from the University of Wisconsin, where he also did a survey of contemporary North American tracker organ builders. He holds a B.A. in Music from Colby College, with a specialty in organ. Ben is Treasurer of Andover Organ Company. He is experienced in almost every facet of organ building and leads with quiet competence. He is also Minister of Music at The First Congregational Church, UCC, in Milford, New Hampshire. Ben and his wife Kathy have three grown children.

Tony Miscio
Tony joined us as a woodworker in 2004. He previously worked for Richards, Fowkes & Co. in TN, where he began his organbuilding career in 2000. In addition to woodworking, he is our resident pipe shade carver, newsletter cartoonist and machine maintenance guru. His bench contains a wide assortment of planes, chisels and gouges which are always as sharp as his wit. Away from work, Tony enjoys spending time with his wife Susan and their young daughter Sarah.

Felicia Morlock
Fay started with Andover as a summer intern in 1979, the last summer the company was in the old shop building. As an organ student at Duke University, she thought it would enhance her work to know more about the instrument. She worked for Andover again during the summer in 1980, and after receiving her B.A. in Music, became a full-time employee in 1981. Fay served for 17 years as our Maintenance Coordinator, and recently returned to production work. Though she misses contact with her “customer-friends,” she is glad to be working on organ parts again. She is an accomplished organ builder and in the shop she has worked in the following areas: pre-voicing pipes; repairing wooden and metal pipes; and restoration work on windchests, cases, reservoirs, wind systems, key action, and pedal coupler action. She and her husband John have two sons.

John Morlock
John began working for Andover in 1976. He had previously learned some of the various aspects of organbuilding with G.W.F. Hunt and Charles Hendrickson in his native Minnesota, and at Bozeman-Gibson in New Hampshire. For many years he led a team in the Old Organ Department, having the opportunity to work on some of the finest 19th Century American instruments and gaining much worthwhile experience along the way. Since 1999 he has been Tonal Director for our new instruments, sharing that position with Bob Newton for old organ rebuilds. John leads one of the company’s maintenance teams, covering Maine and the southeastern states. Cooking with smoke is one of his pleasures when he is not at work.

Robert C. Newton
Bob, a Vermont native, was a mathematics major at the University of Vermont. He is presently a part owner of the company, and as director of the Old Organ Department has been in charge of the restoration of several large and important organs, including the 1866 E. & G. G. Hook at Old South Church in Newburyport, MA, and the 1852 E. & G. G. Hook at the Unitarian Church in Bridgewater, MA. He is a nationally-recognized authority on E. & G. G. Hook and Hook and Hastings organs. He has served as a member of the National Council of the Organ Historical Society and has served the OHS on several convention committees. His home is a renovated church in Methuen, MA, where he has collected many antiques and musical instruments.

Donald H. Olson
Don, an avid organic gardener and fan of Wagnerian opera, has been the artist behind Andover's case designs for many years. A native of Osceola, Wisconsin, he earned a Bachelor of Music from St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, studying organ with Raymond C. Boese and David N. Johnson. He has been associated with Andover since 1962. His apprenticeship with Andover was followed by three years in the US Army Military Intelligence. After his return to the company, he was made Director of the Old Organ Department and later took on the job of Executive Vice President and General Manager. His primary responsibilities have included sales and marketing, visual design, general management, estimating and staff supervision.

Don is a charter member of the American Institute of Organbuilders (AIO) and past Secretary for that organization. He chaired the AIO Convention in Boston in October 2001. A past dean of the Merrimack Valley Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, Don has lectured at several of its conventions. He has given organ concerts throughout the east coast including three appearances at the Methuen Memorial Music Hall, and served 31 years as a church organist. He also served as general manager for the Merrimack Valley Philharmonic Orchestra, in which he was a bassoonist for 26 years. He is currently a volunteer at the Maine Wildlife Park in Gray, ME.

Robert J. Reich
Bob received a Master's degree in engineering from Yale in 1953, and then taught until 1956. He came to work for Andover that year, and his first job description was "helper." At Andover, Bob has held various jobs. When he and Leo Constantineau bought the company from Charles Fisk in 1960, he became partner and Treasurer. He soon became Tonal Director and was elected company President in 1975, continuing in those roles until 1999 when he semi-retired. We celebrated his 50th anniversary with us in 2006. Now fully retired, Bob is still a member of Andover’s Board of Directors. Among other things, he volunteers at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, ME and is organist at Pinewood Lutheran Church in Burlington MA. Bob and his wife Norma have three grown children

Jonathan Ross
Jon joined us in January 2003 as an apprentice organbuilder. He has had a fascination with musical instruments since early childhood. After attending Tufts University where he majored in Ancient History, Jon decided that he wanted to focus once again on music. He became very active in the harmonica community, learning to repair and work on the mouth organ while forming a close association with some of the best technicians in that field. This encouraged him to consider making musical instruments and to take the leap from the humble mouth organ to the grand pipe organ. For Jon, working on the many historic 19th century organs Andover maintains and restores has been especially rewarding as it incorporates his two great passions of history and music. Jon is primarily serving in pipe and voicing areas, repairing old pipes and preparing new ones.

Craig A. Seaman
Craig came to Andover in 1994. A native of the Oregon coast, Craig received a Bachelor of Music degree in Organ Performance from Oberlin College. He then moved to the Boston area because of the historic organs. After working many years in electronics manufacturing, and receiving a Master of Science in Electronics Engineering from Boston University, he decided to pursue his love of music, and joined our team. He specializes in electrical systems design and wiring, but is also a maintenance supervisor. Craig lives with his wife, Cathie, and their two children in Tewksbury, MA. He has been treasurer for the Merrimack Valley Chapter of the AGO for several years, and is currently Organist/Music Director at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Methuen, MA.

David Zarges
David joined our team of skilled craftsmen in 2000. He has experience as a cabinet maker, building custom wooden furniture, as a model maker for Seth Thomas Grandfather Clocks, and as a pattern maker for ferrous metal castings. Prior to his arrival at Andover, David worked for ten years as an organbuilder with Bozeman Organ Co. David’s responsibilities at Andover include casework, wind chests, consoles, and wood pipe construction. David and his wife, Debbie, live in NH and have three grown children and one grandson. In his leisure time, David enjoys woodcarving and spending time with his family - especially his grandson Asher! He also enjoys hiking, camping, canoeing, visiting the White Mountains, and gardening.