On May 3, staff from the C.B. Fisk Company—the famed mechanical action pipe organ manufacturer of Gloucester, Massachusetts—dismantled the pipe organ at Harvard University’s Appleton Chapel. A delegation from Redeemer Presbyterian church in Austin traveled to Massachusetts for the instrument’s farewell recital, which has served Harvard since 1967 and will begin service in Redeemer’s new sanctuary.
In 1965, when plans for the organ began, Harvard entrusted the design, construction, and voicing of the organ to one of its own, Charles Brenton Fisk (’45). His study of early American and European instruments helped him and his company to set a new course for American organbuilding.
No official date has been set for the organ’s première at its new Austin homesite… so pipe organ fanatics will have to stay tuned!