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Taylor & Boody Organbuilders, founded by George Taylor and John Boody in 1977, is a small company of highly skilled workers designing and building tracker action organs. The firm is located in a renovated school building three miles west of Staunton, Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley. |
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Taylor and Boody organs are built to the highest standards of craftsmanship following centuries old traditions. The design of each organ, while built for today, is grounded in extensive research of antique instruments, which have proven to be of surpassing beauty and timeless worth. Virtually all the parts of the organs are handmade in the local workshop, including the fabrication of the metal flue pipes and reeds. Only the finest materials are used in the organs including lumber cut and dried especially for use in organbuilding. The casework, windchests, bellows and action parts are all constructed of solid wood, carefully selected for its function. Where appropriate, the instruments are decorated with classical moldings and carvings. Careful attention to design and manufacture produces an instrument of responsive playing characteristics, great mechanical durability and outstanding musical quality. |
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| The building of the organs, from design concepts through the final voicing, is under the direction of George Taylor and John Boody. This assures a musical instrument of unified purpose and highest artistic integrity. The firm has completed over fifty organs in the United States and Japan, including the restoration of organs of particular historical merit in churches, universities and museum collections. |
 John Boody & George Taylor |
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