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Chris Shires demonstrates how burnishers are used at Shires Organ PIPes to make pipes perfectly round. Soap and water is used as a...
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Chris Shires
Aug 201 min read
George returns to a Tierce he made 40 years ago
A customer asked us to make three new pipes for an existing Tierce to adjust the scale of the rank. Upon investigation we found that our...
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Chris Shires
May 81 min read
Facade pipes in full glory on a new Mander organ
We are delighted to see our facade pipes in their full glory on a new two-manual, mechanical action organ. It has been built by Mander...
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Chris Shires
May 81 min read
Replacement pipes made for organ in America
It's satisfying to see our work in place and a pleasure to have worked together with our colleagues at Wallace Pipe Organs in Maine, USA....
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Chris
Feb 211 min read
Decorative open diapason pipes for Mander organ
We have now completed the decorative Open Diapason facade pipes for Mander Organ Builders who are building a new two-manual instrument in...
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Chris Shires
Jan 171 min read
George offers crash course in organ pipe repair
Organ builder Nick Adams asked us to repair these bent Conacher Salicional pipes from St John's Church, Canton, in Cardiff. They acquired...
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Chris Shires
Jan 171 min read
Four foot Octave rank made for a 1931 Reuter organ
Ryan Luckey, vice president of the Nebraska-based Bedient Pipe Organ Company, asked us to make a four foot Octave of 73 notes to...
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Chris Shires
Oct 25, 20231 min read
George repairs Victorian dented Beaulieu pipes
We were asked by Joost de Boer of William Drake Organ Builders to repair some pipes from a Robert Mirrlees organ, dated 1842, in Palace...
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Chris Shires
Oct 17, 20231 min read
A rare order for a Flûte à Biberon – a 'baby's bottle' flute
It's very rarely that we are asked to make a Flûte à Biberon, but here are the completed 4' pipes for a British organ builder. The stop...
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Chris Shires
Sep 3, 20231 min read
Putting the buzz back into some damaged Walker reeds
Buzard Pipe Organ Builders has announced an exciting organ project for St. James Episcopal Cathedral in Chicago. It will see the...
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Chris Shires
Aug 16, 20231 min read
Three upperwork stops for organ in Illinois Catholic church
We have been asked us to make three stops for the refurbishment of the organ at St Giles Roman Catholic Church, Oak Park, Illinois, USA....
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Chris Shires
Jul 26, 20231 min read
The art and craft of making decorative gift pipes
After Terry Doyle had finished working on some very large pipes, we thought it was only right to give him a sit-down job. So he designed...
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Chris Shires
Jul 22, 20231 min read
It's a wrap for facade pipes for conservatoire organ
The facade pipes for the new organ in the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire are now finished. They were made by Terry Doyle from start to...
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Chris Shires
Jun 30, 20231 min read
Restoration of facade pipes for Georgian organ
We were invited by Rob Rowley of Goetze and Gwynn Organ Builders to restore these facade pipes for a one-manual Georgian organ in St...
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Chris Shires
Jun 16, 20231 min read
Zinc pipes from Shires gleam in Canadian organ
This wonderful picture by Len Levasseur is of an instrument in Ancaster, Ontario, by the American builder, Wallace Pipe Organs of Maine....
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Chris Shires
Jun 14, 20231 min read
New Grand Diapason voiced for Leeds Town Hall organ
Here's the Grand Diapason 8' for the Grand division of the renovated IV/104 Leeds Town Hall organ on the voicing machine at Nicholson and...
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Chris Shires
Jun 12, 20231 min read
New geigen principal for Royal Chapel at Windsor
We were delighted to help when our friends at Nicholson & Co. asked us to make a Geigen Principal 4' for The Royal Chapel of All Saints...
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Chris Shires
Jun 11, 20231 min read
A chirp off the old block - making nightingale pipes
We receive some unusual commissions, but this flight of fancy ranks sky high among them. We have recently finished making some...
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Chris Shires
Jun 9, 20231 min read
Pipes for new organ at Birmingham Conservatoire
Our friends at William Drake Ltd are building a large organ for the organ studio at Birmingham Conservatoire, for which we are making all...
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Robert Cockroft
Jun 9, 20231 min read
Announcing our new company director
We are pleased to announce our new Director, Chris Shires, who has been with the company for over 10 years. Starting as an apprentice,...
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