Colborne Street United Church has a well-maintained instrument installed in 1936 by Woodstock Pipe Organ Builders with further work completed by London’s Gabriel Kney and Company. It has “romantic-tonal” characteristics which, for our organists, make it very suitable for leading choral and congregational singing, yet excellent for performance of most of the world’s musical repertoire of organ music. Woodstock Pipe Organ Builders, formed in 1922, was composed of all the artisan talent of Woodstock’s former organ industry – principally Karn-Warren Company, Hay Organ Co. Ltd., and Warren Organ Company. Woodstock Pipe Organ Builders closed in 1948. London’s Gabriel Kney and Company, 1962 - 1996, specialized in mechanical-action organs but also provided services to many churches, Colborne included, with modernizing their older instruments. This firm added pipe work to Colborne’s organ in 1978 and then, in 1992, added more pipes and a better console that originally was built by Casavant Frères (of Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec) for the First Baptist Church in Ottawa. The organ continues to be maintained by Dodington & Dodington Pipe Organ Services Inc. located near Aylmer, Ontario. Truly, Colborne’s organ is a product of organ building and maintaining skills centered around London. It is an excellent example of a three-manual, mid-sized pipe organ containing 2,223 pipes. References: Pipe Organ Factories in Woodstock Source: https://jthompson445.wordpress.com/tag/pipe-organs-manufacturing/ Hartman, James B., Canadian Organ building Source: https://www.thediapason.com/content/canadian-organbuilding-part-1 The Pipe Organ of Colborne Street United Church