Our Facilities

Our workshop is located on the Chicago River in the South Loop district of Chicago in an historic structure originally built in 1910 as the warehouse of the famous Chicago department store, Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. With a nine-bay covered loading dock, our facilities are easily accessed by rail and barge.

Special areas are designated over two floors for pipework restoration and voicing, refinishing, releathering, wiring, and assembly. In addition to restored vintage woodworking, polishing, and manufacturing equipment, we have developed many specialty jigs and fixtures for releathering, keyboard regulation, and wiring.

Workshop

: A partial view of our restoration shop in downtown Chicago

: Another view of our restoration shop. Its layout and equipment are highly versatile to accomplish a variety of tasks on any given day.

: Good housekeeping. Our extensive dust collection system helps make maintaining a clean shop easy.

: The cutting table, with a large stock of felt and leather nearby

: This custom device makes it easy to work on organ manuals.

: Vintage Wurlitzer keyboards recovered in genuine new ivory.

: Hanging leather stock.

: We hired a foundry to reproduce an exact copy of the tin tubing found in the consoles of vintage Wurlitzer organs.

: Pipe cleaning department.

: Pipe restoration department.

: The pipe voicing machine.

: The pipe voicing machine.

: The pipe voicing machine.

: Punching in progress.

: Part of our punch collection.

: A Wurlitzer relay machine after restoration.

: A Wurlitzer relay machine after restoration.

: Some of our vintage wood stock.

: We keep a stock of high-quality vintage screws for use in restoration projects.

: These “cut” screws are of higher quality than what is available today. The screws are bead-blasted and finished to give them a like-new appearance.