C.B. Fisk

09/30/2026

With the devastating March fire at the historic Jacques Stinkens Orgelpijpenmakers factory in the Netherlands, we lost our façade pipes for Opus 166, which were preparing to ship. We eventually found a solution with our friends at Taylor & Boody. They stepped up in a big way, offering to help and ultimately making the 16′ polished tin façade pipes - all but the hammered tin side façade! As of last week, those pipes have arrived and been installed ℂ𝕙𝕦𝕣𝕔𝕙 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕃𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕝𝕖 𝔽𝕝𝕠𝕨𝕖𝕣 in Coral Gables! 🎉We want to offer a massive thank-you to Taylor and Boody Organbuilders for their willingness to help and collaborate with us, and especially to Erik Boody for coming to Coral Gables and helping with the installation. You guys are the best! We are immensely grateful to have such wonderful relationships with our fellow organbuilders and friends.

09/10/2026

More of a chilly autumn wind, but we had a lovely time on our annual work excursions with Essex River Cruises & Charters this last weekend! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who helped arrange it and who was able to tag along for the adventure!

09/03/2026

Opus 170 is going up in the workshop! A very productive couple of weeks with steel, key action, and wind chests going in. More updates to come as everything comes together. 🎉

08/13/2026

Christ Church in Philadelphia - home of Fisk Opus 150. Great to be back for this week’s Organ Historical Society convention.

When we think of Benjamin Franklin, we usually think of electricity, printing presses, or diplomatic strategy. But he was also interested in music. This connection takes center stage tomorrow!

In the 18th century, Franklin organized a lottery in Philadelphia to help fund the steeple and organ gallery for Christ Church -- one of the sites on the schedule for this week's Organ Historical Society convention in Philadelphia. Come join us - see if you can find his pew!

If you're in Philadelphia for , take a moment to look up at the organ gallery at Christ Church—you're standing in a space shaped by one of history's greatest innovators.

Here he is with the Executive Director of the AGO, Cathy Brigham, who will be attending the session at Christ Church.

08/07/2026

The console and steel for Opus 170 are being assembled in the workshop! Keep an eye out for more updates as everything gets pieced together in the next few weeks. 🎉

07/22/2026

And just like that, the first batch of the facade pipes is in for Opus 166! 🎉

07/07/2026

The voicing continues! From some of the very smallest to the very bigger pipes, we’ve been having a wonderful time the last couple weeks with the mixtures and the Contre Basson for Opus 166. 😁 We’re also looking forward to installing the first of the facade pipes in a couple weeks from now. 🎉

07/06/2026

A lovely article about Opus 171 which has found its home at the Butler School of Music!

07/01/2026

The coupler stack for Opus 170 is ready to go! There are a lot of moving parts that live behind the keyboards, so here’s the inside look!

Photo 2: Fins that turn on/off different couplers, guides to keep all the trackers working nicely, and square rails for when it all goes back to the wind chests!

Photo 3: A lovely little rollerboard to bring the pedal board - which is a bit wider than the coupler stack - into the same scale as everything else. You can also see the backfalls that connect the couplers together!

Photo 4: You can see where the pedal board lines up with the coupler stack! Everything under those levers will go under the floor.

Photo 5: Starting to add the trackers that will go into the backs of the keyboards! You can see where they line up with the coupler backfalls and they go all the way down to the square rails. 😁

Photos 6-7: And two more pictures of the whole thing put together!

Isn’t it lovely? 😁🎉

06/20/2026

For summer 2026, First Lutheran Church of Boston and Old West Organ Society will cosponsor Tuesday night organ concerts at First Lutheran. The first concert will be July 7 at 8pm.

Here are July's performances:
July 7 | Stefan Donner
Bach & Fuchs

July 14 | Chris Thorpe|
French repertoire for Bastille Day by Balbastre, Clérambault, de Grigny

July 21 | Victoria Shorokhova
Bach, Buxtehude, Böhm

July 28 | Chris Porter
Buxtehude, Titelouze, Langlais, Vierne