As a result of a congregational merger and the pending sale of its church building, our Op. 68, built in 1997 for First United Methodist Church in Akron, Ohio, is for sale. Please contact us if you would like further information.

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Grace Church Cathedral in Charleston, South Carolina, announces the commissioning of our Opus 101. Installed in existing chambers, the new instrument will have electric action and a movable console. Elegant new façade woodwork will be constructed for both chancel chambers as well as Antiphonal cases that frame the rear window. Installation is scheduled to begin in July 2026, with completion in March 2027. (A letter of intent was signed in August 2022, and a construction contract was signed in November 2023, but the project was not publicly announced until May 2025.) The Very Reverend J. Michael A. Wright is Rector and Dean; Nicholas Quardokus is Canon Organist and Director of Music.

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Construction of a new organ for the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia is nearing completion in our shop. Opus 100, celebrates Curtis’s 100th anniversary, and comes during our 50th anniversary year. It’s the first instrument to be constructed in our new workshop. Alan Morrison, holder of the Haas Charitable Trust Chair in Organ Studies, directs the department and is the primary instructor for its five students; he is joined by Jeffrey Brillhart, who teaches improvisation. The design of the new instrument for Field Concert Hall is a collaboration between Dobson and a committee of Curtis alumni. Installation begins in July 2025, with completion in February 2026.

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In 2009, in celebration of our company’s 35th anniversary, we made an online exhibit of some of Lynn Dobson’s drawings. One of the most highly-regarded case designers of his generation, Dobson has proved to be equally at home in modern or historically-inspired idioms. Lynn A. Dobson: Drawings & Projects presents a selection of work from 1974–2009, and includes unrealized designs as well as built instruments.