Latest New Organ
Opus 118, First Parish Church
Wayland, Massachusetts


Latest Rebuild
Opus R55D, St. Paul's Episcopal
Nantucket, Massachusetts


Latest Restoration
Opus R490, St. Anna's Chapel
Newburyport, Massachusetts


Announcements

Free Organ Concert
1893 Woodberry & Harris Organ
Sunday, Nov. 24, at 5:00 PM
Marlboro, MA
Stan Hanson, music director at Saint Stephen Lutheran Church, 537 Bolton Street, Marlboro MA, will play a recital on the church's newly acquired 1893 Woodberry & Harris tracker organ. The 2-manual, 12-rank organ was a gift from Mt. Olivet Lutheran Church in Shrewsbury, which recently closed. Free Admission. CLICK HERE for more information.
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AOC 2018 NEWSLETTER
Now Posted Online
CLICK HERE  to read the online version of Andover's 2018 Newsletter.
Andover Organ Company
Seventieth Anniversary
1948-2018
To commemorate our 70th anniversary, Matthew Bellocchio has written a detailed history of the company, its key people, and its innovative work, which appeared as the cover feature in the June 2018 issue of The Diapason. CLICK HERE to see this illustrated article.
New Katelyn Emerson CD
Now Available for Purchase/Download
September 09, 2018
Katelyn Emerson's stunning recording of our Opus 114 in Baltimore, MD is now available at the ProOrgano website.

CLICK HERE to purchase the CD.

CLICK HERE to download the MP3 version.


New Katelyn Emerson CD
"Inspirations" Preview Video
June 05, 2018

Katelyn Emerson has recorded her second Pro Organo CD album, “Inspirations”, on Andover Opus 114 at Christ Lutheran Church in Baltimore. The album features works by Rheinberger, Buxtehude, Parker, Bairstow, Daquin, Langlais, Duruflé and Lauren. CLICK HERE for the preview video, in which she plays excerpts from the Rheinberger Passacaglia (Sonata 8, Op.132) and Rachel Laurin's Finale, Op.78.


Duxbury Rebuild Featured in
May 2018 TAO Magazine
April 24, 2018
Our recent rebuilding of the 1853 Simmons organ at First Parish in Duxbury, MA is the cover feature article in the May 2018 issue of The American Organist, the national magazine of the American Guild of Organists. CLICK HERE to read the article.
AOC 2017 NEWSLETTER
Now Posted Online
CLICK HERE to read the online version of Andover's 2017 Newsletter.
Rheinberger Organ Sonatas
Bruce Stevens, Organist
Volume 5 Released
July 19, 2017
Raven Compact Discs has released Volume 5 of Bruce Steven's series of the Rheinberger organ sonatas. The disc features three sonatas (No.7 in F minor, No.9 in B minor, No.13 in E-Flat Major) played on three historic American organs: the 1860 E. & G.G. Hook at St. John's Catholic Church in Bangor, Maine; the 1898 Geo. Jardine & Son at St. Peter's Catholic Church in Haverstraw, New York; and the 1868 E. & G.G. Hook at Christ Episcopal Church in Charlottesville, Virginia. CLICK HERE for more information. Andover restored the latter two instruments and cares for all three.
AOC 2016 NEWSLETTER
Now Posted Online
January 01, 2017
CLICK HERE to read the online version of Andover's 2016 Newsletter.
Round Lake Organ
is designated a
National Historic Landmark
On January 11, 2017 the 3 manual 1847 Davis & Ferris Organ in the Round Lake (NY) Auditorium was officially designated a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior. It is the first pipe organ to receive this designation. Andover has maintained the organ since the 1960s.
1906 Jesse Woodberry
Organ Restoration
Lowell, Massachusetts
Andover has been contracted to restore the 1906 Jesse Woodberry organ at St. Patrick’s Church in Lowell, MA. With 3 manuals and 56 ranks, it is the largest organ built by Woodberry, and the largest surviving pipe organ in the City of Lowell. The instrument has been unplayable for nearly a decade. The project will be done in three stages (Console & Choir; Swell; Great & Pedal) over three years, starting this spring, with completion by early 2020.
Opus R-500 Featured in
October 2015 TAO Magazine
Opus R-500, at Saint John's Seminary in Brighton, is the cover feature article in the October 2015 issue of The American Organist, the national magazine of the American Guild of Organists. CLICK HERE to read the article about the rebuilding of the organ.
AOC 2015 NEWSLETTER
CLICK HERE to read the online version of Andover's 2015 Newsletter.
Opus R-205B
Reinstallation Video
In 2013 we restored the 1895 (II/9) Hutchings organ at First Parish Church of Stow and Acton in Stow, MA. A church member made a stop-action video of Jonathan Ross and Andrew Hagberg reinstalling the pipework. Click here to see the video.
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Opus R-227
2001
Lamington Presbyterian Church
E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings Organ, Opus 956, 1879
Bedminster, NJ
Andover Organ Company Opus R-227

After undertaking a major renovation of its building and its organ, an 1879 E&GG Hook & Hastings, Opus 956, the 260 year old congregation of Lamington Presbyterian Church in Bedminster, New Jersey decided to have its 15 facade pipes restenciled.

Andover Organ Company took on the project with consultant MaryLou Davis of Woodstock, CT, assisted by Eleanor Richardson of Andover. Tonal Director John Morlock carefully stripped the beige latex paint off the existing pipes to reveal stripes, medallions and fleur-de-lis in varing shades of Victorian brown. Davis observed that these muted colors were typical of the 1880s, a time of economic and psychological depression in America.

In order to blend with the blues of the present renovation, Davis modified the colors of a few sections of the pipes slightly, while carefully selecting colors typical of the Victorian era. She traced the original designs, and cut mylar stencils to reproduce them. Richardson then measured the placement of the designs, stripped the pipes, and repainted them. All agree modestly that the result is stunning.

This organ has been renovated several times over the years, reflecting different trends in organ design. In November, 2001, the organ returned to Lamington with the most recent mechanical and tonal renovations completed, returning it from a North German Baroque to a more American sound, compatible with its original character.