
Established in 1970, Quimby Pipe Organs specializes in the building, expansion, renovation, and restoration of pipe organs and has installations throughout the United States. Our new and rebuilt instruments range in scope from II/3 to V/155 and are carefully planned, engineered and voiced as a highly-customized addition for each unique situation with a goal of visually complimenting their setting. New organs feature Quimby Pipe Organ's slider windchests with their unique double-stage primary action allowing the pipes to achieve fully developed speech instantaneously. Our organs are designed to be "service friendly" so that maintenance and tuning will provide a stable and long life for generations.
Our design and tonal philosophy is to create and voice instruments in a style that is distinctly our own, with no pretense of copying one school or historical design. Our goal is to blend general contemporary American ideas with our own concepts based on research into other organ-building traditions. In our work, we consistently strive for choruses that are clear and transparent and balances that work to serve liturgical and concert literature.
We believe we have a great responsibility to produce organs that will not only "do church," but will do it with style. Our organs do this by supporting the choir, by offering organists registration possibilities for creative and sensitive service playing and by having an essential grandeur as well as a heroic nature appropriate to the example of our work. It combines the foundation for excellent support of choral, congregational and service music in addition to supporting organ concert literature and the community concert venue.
Quimby's extensive service department holds 168 contracts for tuning and maintenance with churches, auditoriums, universities, theaters, and individuals covering the Midwestern states and other QPO installations. Technical knowledge gained from good service work advances our goals of longevity and reliability.
The Quimby staff consists of fourteen full-time professionals and several part-time employees dedicated to the art of organ building and preservation. Though the company has grown during the past thirty years, we remain committed to the highest standards and are proud to maintain the personal touch and attention to detail that all of our customers expect and receive.





