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Biographical Info

The A. Thompson-Allen Company was founded in 1952 by Aubrey Thompson-Allen, formerly assistant to G. Donald Harrison at the AeolianSkinner Organ Company and, before that, managing director of Henry Willis & Sons in London. Upon his retirement in 1973, his son Nicholas Thompson-Allen and his assistant Joseph Dzeda formed a partnership that has lasted to this day.

Our respect for the work of great American organ builders leads us to conserve both the musical characteristics and the original technology of our restored instruments whenever possible. In addition to a large number of organs that we maintain on a regular basis, we have a 65-year working relationship with Yale University and the Institute of Sacred Music established there in 1973.

We specialize in the maintenance, repair, and restoration of pipe organs of all types, with an emphasis on the instruments built by the Skinner and Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company. To date, we have fully restored sixteen such instruments, six of which are four-manual organs. Currently in our shops are Opus 736 for the Church of the Blessed Sacrament in Worcester, Massachusetts, and Opus 722, the Newberry Memorial Organ in Yale University’s Woolsey Hall in New Haven, Connecticut.