C.B. Fisk

Designers & Builders Of Pipe Organs Over fifty years ago Charles Brenton Fisk founded our company.

Charlie revived traditional organ building, most notably a return to mechanical (or "tracker") key action. His rich and eclectic musical sensibility left an indelible mark on American organ building and on those of us who proudly continue Charlie's legacy of innovation and thoughtful craftsmanship. We believe that an organ is a means by which a musician brings music to life. Our instruments are mo

st successful when they function acoustically and aesthetically as one with the buildings they live in. We build a precise scale model of each building to ensure that the organ complements the architecture that surrounds it, and take equal care in composing a stop list that meets the musical needs of each client. The final step is the painstaking voicing of the instrument, adjusting each pipe to the acoustics of the room. The task is complex, but the collaboration is exciting and rewarding. Our job includes education and community building, and we join those communities with whom we work as visiting artisans. We are pleased to count as friends the many enthusiastic supporters who turn out to help unload a truck, lift a beam, or just drop by with a question and a few words of encouragement. It is our foremost goal to put our craftsmanship and expertise in the service of the very best musical experiences for audiences, congregations and organists around the world. We look forward to sharing this ideal with you in the creation of a new organ.

03/27/2025

We are excited to announce that an exhibit about C.B. Fisk will be held at the Cape Ann Museum from April 12-June 29, 2025. This exhibit includes various gallery talks and performances as well as ten of our scale models. We are so grateful and excited for the opportunity to share a small part of our work with you all!

The models that will be shown in the exhibit include:
Opus 46 and Opus 139 at Harvard University - Cambridge, MA
Opus 72 at Houghton Chapel - Wellesley College - Wellesley, MA
Opus 141 at St. Paul’s Chapel - Rikkyo Univeristy - Niiza, Japan
Opus 110 at Minato Mirai Hall - Yokohama Japan
Opus 149 at Tang Shiu Kin Secondary School Chapel - Hong Kong
Opus 150 at Christ Church Episcopal- Philadelphia, PA
Opus 78 at House of Hope Presbyterian Church - St. Paul, Minnesota
Opus 153 at Wesley United Methodist Church - Muscatine, IA
Opus 146 at Christ Church Episcopal - Glendale, OH

For more information on the exhibit, please see:
https://www.capeannmuseum.org/exhibition/breath-of-life/

For more information about our different instruments you can see https://cbfisk.com/instruments/

03/19/2025

In celebration of his 340th birthday on Friday, we wanted to post in memory and appreciation of Johann Sebastian Bach.

A number of concerts are being held in his honor this week. We have attached the information for three of those concerts for anyone who would like to celebrate with us in the Boston area. If you know of any more, feel free to add them in the comments!

https://fcc-winchester.com/latest-news/ripley-presents-an-organ-extravaganza/

https://gloucestermeetinghouse.org/

https://oldwestorgansociety.org/calendar/2025/3/14/bach-birthday-benefit-2025

https://cbfisk.com/instruments/

02/02/2025

Coming up on Sunday, FISK at 50 – A Special Evensong Service at St. Michael's Church.

On February 2, 1975, St. Michael’s Church, Marblehead, celebrated the installation of a new organ, C. B. Fisk’s Opus 69, with a Festal Evensong service in collaboration with the choir of Christ Church of Hamilton & Wenham. To commemorate this year’s fiftieth anniversary, the choirs of St. Michael’s and Christ Church will once again join voices to sing a service of Evensong on Sunday, February 2, 2025, at 5:00pm in the sanctuary of St. Michael’s Church. Musical selections will include some repeats from the original event, including Thomas A. Walmisley’s “Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in D” for choir as well as J. S. Bach’s “Gigue Fugue” for solo organ. There will be a reception immediately following.
More Information: https://www.stmichaels1714.org/

01/18/2025

C.B.Fisk organbuilders Joji Shiga and Carl Klein , in collaboration with Thibaut Lenfant (formerly at Fisk, now at Requier organbuilders) are cleaning and tuning and making all things new at the Cathedral in Lausanne, Switzerland.

01/14/2025

Katherine Jolliff - organ recital at Northminster Presbyterian Church, Indianapolis
Sunday, February 2, 4:00 pm, FREE ADMISSION.

Recitalist - Katherine Jolliff – BM student at Eastman, named one of the top 20 under 30 in The Diapason, originally from Indianapolis.

Music of Bach, Mendelssohn, Karg-Elert, Vierne - organ by C.B. Fisk organ builders.

Northminster Presbyterian Church, 1660 Kessler Boulevard East Drive | Indianapolis, Indiana 46220

01/10/2025

This weekend with the Seattle Symphony at Benaroya Hall conducted by Jun Maerkl. Greetings from inside the organ chamber, standing next to (the bottom of) just a few of the "big guns." Plenty of wind required for those bass pipes to pulsate! Note the thermometer on the left. :) Instrument by C.B. Fisk.

01/09/2025

Our sympathy goes out to The Parish of St. Matthew - The Episcopal Church in Pacific Palisades. We don't have pictures, nor a lot of information yet, but do know that both rectories, as well as several parishioners' homes were consumed by the fire, and the school was significantly damaged. The church building was still ok as of this morning.

11/06/2024

Organ Recital this Friday, Nov. 8, on C. B. Fisk Opus 89, in First Presbyterian Church, New Bern, NC.
7 PM, played by Daniel Sansone

10/23/2024

Looks like a wonderful program by Robert Gallagher at Opus 112 in Richmond, VA this Friday at 7.

10/10/2024

Lovely Continuo Keyboards by Tim! Three new keyboards for the current round of continuo organs.

10/09/2024

Today in the pipe shop: Terry cutting lots of feet; Nami forming lower lips; me (Carl) (not in the picture because i was taking it) making Dom Bedos # 2 Cromorne resonators.

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21 Kondelin Road
Gloucester, MA
01930

Telephone

+19782831909

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https://www.cbfisk.com/

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It's a casting day at C. B. Fisk. Joji Shiga at the melting pot; Nami Hamada stirring; master caster Terry Joris with the thermometer. Casting thin sheets of 75% tin.