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George K. Taylor and John H. Boody founded Taylor & Boody Organbuilders in 1977. Taylor, a graduate of Washington and Lee University, was awarded a Ford Foundation grant to serve an apprenticeship with Rudolph von Beckerath in Hamburg, Germany. Boody, a University of Maine alumnus trained in Forestry and Music, apprenticed in the Georgetown, Massachusetts organbuilding shop of Fritz Noack. Taylor and Boody first worked together as partners in the shop of John Brombaugh in Middletown, Ohio. Between 1970 and 1977 John Brombaugh & Co. built some twenty organs. |
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| In 1979 George and John moved their new company to its present location, a renovated school building three miles west of Staunton, Virginia. Taylor & Boody specializes in designing and building tracker organs of high quality, firmly grounded in historical tradition. Virtually all parts of the organs are made in the Virginia workshop, including the metal pipes and reed stops. The team of fifteen workers has extensive experience constructing the organ components of the finest materials. The whole process from initial conception through the finished voicing is under the supervision of experienced specialists in the shop team. |
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In over thirty years of business the shop has completed more than seventy-five instruments for churches, schools and private studios. The firm has also undertaken museum quality restorations of significant historic organs including the 1800 David Tannenberg organ from the Home Moravian Church in Salem, North Carolina. The knowledge and practice gained through restorations and the study of numerous antiques both here and abroad has influenced the firm in building new organs in distinctive historical styles. These include a three manual meantone organ in North German Baroque style for the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and the Tannenberg inspired organ for the First Presbyterian Church in Pittsford, New York.
Each project undertaken by Taylor and Boody is a unique creation requiring thousands of hours of design, study and manufacturing. An important part of our work is providing advice and consultation regarding acoustical renovation and suggestions for the creation of appropriate new spaces for music and worship.
We invite your inquiry regarding a future organ building project. |
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