Category Archives: News

1870 J D Moore – Installed

We are pleased to announce the completion of the 1870 J D Moore project  for St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church, Herndon, Virginia  20 stops / 24 ranks Mechanical key and stop action / Electric action pedal        

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Setting up the Workshop

Getting the building completed does not finish our task of rebuilding the shop.  We are now moving all our equipment, tools, supplies, benches, jigs, lumber and the like into the new space.  The plan is to complete this work by the end of the month, but as you can see, there remains a lot to […]

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Huzzah! The Workshop is Finished!!

  We are at long last finished with the construction of our new workshop. In spite of the many obstacles the talented bureaucrats in my local planning and permit department presented, and an unusually long and wet spring, we now have a CO (certificate of occupancy), meaning we are now allowed to move all our […]

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2016 – A new year and a new beginning….

January sees lots of activity at the Farmer organ shop.  With Christmas over, we are done with the crush of tunings and emergency organ repairs the season always brings and are now fully focused on the completion of our new 5000 square foot workshop.  Work really started back in October and the building exterior is […]

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2015 was not our best year…

In the early morning of March 11, our beautiful post and beam workshop was completly destroyed by a terrible fire.  The fire marshall determined it was the random work of an arsonist(s), likely responsible for several other local fires.  The blaze started behind the shop, quickly spread to the rear wall and then engulfed the […]

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