
 Episcopal Church Center,
New York City
1/3 Bedient
St. Mary’s RC Church, Stamford, CT III/30, Hall Organ Co.
Queens College Aaron Copland School of Music, III/48 Bedient, Opus 30, 1991, II/4 Church Organ Co.
St. Hilda’s & St. Hugh’s School
III/50 Rieger, 1974
St. Michael's Episcopal Church
New York City, III/45
Rudolf von Beckerath
Trinity Church, Wall Street, New York City, IV/120 Aeolian-Skinner
Calvary Episcopal Church, New York City, IV/75 Aeolian-Skinner
Kawaiaha'o Church, Honolulu, HI, III/45 Aeolian-Skinner
St. George's Episcopal Church, New York City, IV/ 65 Moller
Church of the Epiphany, Winchester, Mass., II/24 C.B. Fisk
St. Joseph’s RC Church, New York City, II/30, 1895 Muller & Abel
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Anthony Meloni with his wife Sharla Nafziger (www.sharlanafziger.com), and daughter Lia in Newport, Rhode Island, Summer, 2008.
COMPANY NEWS:
Meloni & Farrier has signed a contract with the First Moravian Church of New York City to perform a complete historical restoration of their ca. 1840’s Henry Erben organ, 2 manuals, 16 stops. The restoration process will include reworking the manual action back to its original G- compass configuration. This will involve the construction of new Henry Erben style replica keyboards, replacement of missing pipework, and traditional vertical style stop jambs.
More about this organ
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Read "Pipe Cleaner", by Joshua Hersh from the New Yorker.
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CURRENT PROJECTS:
Restoration of the 1902 Gavioli Band Organ for the Carousel at Playland Amusement Park, Rye, New York.
The construction of a new windchest accommodating four additional stops for the 1950 Moller Organ at St. Catherine of Genoa, RC Church, Brooklyn, New York.
The restoration, upgrade, and installation of Casavant Freres Opus 1951, III/49, for St. John the Baptist RC Church, Yonkers, New York.
The restoration of II/20 Charles McMannus Gallery organ at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Stamford, CT.
New one stop Addition to II/12 Casavant organ at Advent Lutheran Church, New York, New York.
ABOUT THE COMPANY:
Meloni & Farrier Organbuilders, a member firm of the International Society of Organbuilders, specializes in all types of organ restorations, and 19th century organs in particular. For the past 18 years, they have been engaged in building, restoring and maintaining organs throughout the United States.
Meloni & Farrier maintains a workshop in an historic loft building located in lower Westchester County, New York. The firm’s restoration and maintenance work has included, to name just a few, the restoration of the I/6 Beckerath organ at St. Michael’s Church in New York City, the 3 manual Beckerath organs at Dwight Chapel, Yale University and the University of Houston, and the III/50 Aeolian Skinner organ at Kawaiaha’o Church in Honolulu, Hawaii. The firm has has recently completed the restoration of the 1873 J.H. & C.S. Odell (I/13) located at the Congregational Church in Chester, New Jersey.
In addition to Meloni & Farrier's activities maintaining approximately 60 organs in and around New York State and in Honolulu, we are also the former organ curators at Trinity Church, Wall Street.

Consiglia Meloni
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