POE Tech: July 21-27, 2019

Thanks to all who made the 2019 POE Tech a resounding success!

POE Highlights:

• Daily organ building classes at the Berghaus Pipe Organ Builders’ shop in Bellwood, IL.

• Visit to J.L. Weiler organ restoration shop in the Loop

• Downtown Chicago chamber music recital, pizza dinner, and organ crawl, exploring some of the city’s finest instruments

Featured Instruments:

• Quimby, V manuals, 142 ranks, Fourth Presbyterian Church

• Flentrop, IV manuals, 117 ranks, Holy Name Cathedral

• Fisk, II manuals, 33 ranks, St. Chrysostom’s Episcopal Church

• Casavant, IV manuals, 54 ranks, St. John Cantius Catholic Church

• Wurlitzer, II manuals, 7 ranks, St. John Cantius Church Hall

• Berghaus, III manuals, 40 ranks, Ascension Catholic Church

• Berghaus, III manuals, 81 ranks, Grace Lutheran Church

Faculty:

Faculty included distinguished organ builders, technical specialists, acousticians, organists, and church musicians.