Allow me to offer you quotes from a few Phoenix Organ customers.

This person's experiences during the process of choosing a Phoenix Organ for his church is wrapped up in a couple of short paragraphs:

"In days past, buying an organ meant finding a builder who you trusted, who understood your style of music, and worked with you to create a unique expression of an instrument. The result was an organ with style and character and which was unique in all the world based on your holy space and the dreams of the organ builder. Today, the trend is towards picking out an instrument from a catalog based on how much money you have and is designated something like "Model 834/2 in color B and console style 4", and which sounds more or less like every other Model 834/2 that the company has ever installed anywhere. The character and soul have been stolen and replaced with scare tactics about "service and support forever" and "not picking up the local CB radio on Sunday".

"I say that there are still manufacturers who create instruments with character and style and soul, You just have to work hard to find them and have courage to work with them. I encourage you to work with Phoenix. You will have a wonderful instrument that will exceed your dreams and make your organ search into a holy experience and answer all your prayers for an instrument that will lead your music program and enrich your worship experience!"

Andy Pierce
Chenango Bridge Episcopal Church

There is a video example of the Chenango Bridge Phoenix Organ on the "Media" page of our website.

Next, I want you to see some comments made by a perfectionistic, and, yes, most difficult organist... he does some concertizing, and will not accept a church position unless it is a large pipe organ [name omitted to protect everyone, innocent or otherwise ;-) ] Anyway, if we can garner this kind of praise from him, I am MORE than certain we can build a organ for you that you will love.

Here are his comments:

"...I knew from the pictures that the woodwork was outstanding, but the keyboards are better than I had expected them to be and they are set up with the firing point exactly right. The console just "feels" right which you can never say about some of your competitor's consoles. You guys completely nailed the #1 priority for this project..."

He continues....

"...I will tell you this, the organist I had come over to help Monday is the one at that church that bought the 75 stop “custom” Allen “in the style of Cavaille-Coll”. ...he concluded that I was right – neither Allen nor Rodgers could have built this organ - and I believe he went away just a bit jealous..."

Also, from our recent Open Console Reception featuring the Phoenix Organ PT246...

"....She played a few hymns at the organ, and turned to me and said, " Oh, this is terrible...". Shocked, I asked her what she could have heard that was terrible! Responding, she said, " Oh, not this organ... Our organ just died this summer; it was doing crazy things and after the tech could not fix it, we decided to buy an new one... My Priest just bought a new Allen organ two weeks ago, and I like THIS organ so much more"!

Continuing she said, "...we just paid the down payment... I wish so much that I had heard this organ a month ago." She continued with many comments about how much better the Phoenix Organ sounded and how much nicer the console was, and that it had a better feel to it than the Allen...." [Tragically, I found out they paid $12,000.00 more for a smaller Allen in a cheaper console! Sadly, I can't save them all.]

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