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...

We receive some unusual commissions, but this flight of fancy ranks sky high among them. We have recently finished making some...

Our friends at William Drake Ltd are building a large organ for the organ studio at Birmingham Conservatoire, for which we are making all...

We are pleased to announce our new Director, Chris Shires, who has been with the company for over 10 years. ​Starting as an apprentice,...

If there's one job that sends pipe makers round the bend, it's making mitres for customers. Mitred joints allow organ pipes to be...

Our youngest pipe-maker Chris Shires has just completed a 4' Viole Octaviante rank for our friends at Dobson Organ Builders in Lake City,...

We are delighted to be working with Glatter-Götz Organ Builders from Pfullendorf, Germany, making reeds to their specifications....

Shires is delighted and proud to have been invited to work on the renewal and reconstruction of the organ in Leeds Town Hall. Built for...

It has been pleasure making a selection of pipes for the new organ in Radley College, Oxfordshire, which is being built by our friends at...

Chris Shires demonstrates our method of rounding pipe feet using a block and wooden mandrels. The tools he is using – a close up of a...

There's a particular beauty to an organ facade displaying pipes of 80 per cent tin. A great deal of delicate work goes into manufacturing...

The mangled pipes, above, come from a two-manual Forster and Andrews organ built in 1893 for a church in Scotland and recently installed...

Chris Shires at his workbench making a Vox Humana 8' in the style of the American organ builder Skinner for a large organ in New York....

This tricky sort of mitre work would be enough to send most of us round the bend – but it's just one of the skills in regular use in our...

These spotted metal facade pipes were made in our workshops by Terry Doyle, below, for the Ortloff Organ Company in Massachusetts, US....

The two-manual, 28-stop organ in the First United Methodist Church in Henderson, Kentucky, is nearing completion and Shires was pleased...

The difficult we do at once, the impossible takes a little longer. Or so visitors may imagine when they see the state of damaged organ...

We enjoy sending organ pipes across the Atlantic to our growing band of organ builder friends in the United States. The latest batch was...

Here's a Gamba 8ft made for our organ builder friends in Malvern, Nicholson and Co. Many thanks to James Atherton for asking us to make...