Our Work
Opus 5 - Benitez Chapel, Episcopal High School, Bellaire, TX - 2027
At 30 stops, our Opus 5 is our largest organ to date, for the new 1,100-seat chapel at Episcopal High School in Houston, Texas. Designed primarily to accompany services in the chancel, it will also support singing in the full chapel as a complement to Skinner Opus 819, being restored and installed in the gallery.
Opus 4 - St. John's Episcopal Church, Williamstown, MA - 2025
Our 12-stop Opus 4 epitomizes multum in parvo - a organ in which flexibility is a lodestar, serving the needs of the Episcopal liturgy while still hewing to strictures of good classical organ building.
Aeolian-Skinner Opus 936 - St. John's Chapel Groton School - 2024
The birthplace of the American Classic Organ, Groton School's landmark 1935 Aeolian-Skinner was a laboratory for G. Donald Harrison's tonal ideas. Eighty years on, our work involves rebuilding the console, and a handful of tonal matters.
Skinner Opus 563 - Perkins Chapel, Southern Methodist University - 2023
Originally built for Fourth Presbyterian Church in New York City, Opus 563 was purchased by SMU in 2019 for installation in Perkins Chapel. As part of a collaborative team, we re-engineered the organ for Perkins, erected it in our shop with new winding, restored the organ's reservoirs and wood pipes, and oversaw the installation.
Opus 3 - St. Alban's Episcopal Church, Cape Elizabeth, ME - 2022
Our 19-stop, 25-rank Opus 3 is our largest instrument to date, and puts the accompaniment of singing front and center, with a bold Great to support the congregation, and a Swell, directly behind the choir, with all the color and dynamic range necessary to accompany anthems and Anglican chant.
Opus 2 - St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church, Shoreline, WA 2020
Our Opus 2, of 16 stops and 18 ranks, was commissioned in late 2018 by St. Dunstan's to replace a failing second-hand pipe organ. After a thorough process, the church’s organ committee elected to commission a fine electric action organ to complement the rich collection of mechanical action instruments in the greater Seattle area.
Opus 1 - St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Penfield, NY 2016
Our first organ presented a number of challenges, namely, designing an organ in a space without a logical place for one. Both physical and tonal design challenges were met in this 24-rank instrument that speaks into a welcoming acoustic with warmth and clarity.
St. Thomas Church, New York, NY 2016
Ortloff Organ Company was commissioned in early 2016 to build a three-manual console to function as the interim chancel instrument at New York's St. Thomas Church ahead of the installation of the new Dobson organ in 2017. Tasked with accompanying the revered Choir of Men and Boys, the instrument uses Hauptwerk software, and samples appropriate to the repertoire performed by the choir. Built of solid, quartersawn white oak, and walnut, stained and finished to match the chancel furniture of the church, the console was delivered in August, 2016.
Dr. Karl Saunders Residence, Zanesville, OH 2015
To complement the theatre pipe organ already installed in his home, Karl Saunders commissioned a four-manual organ console controlling Hauptwerk software in 2014 to enable practice of classical organ literature on a variety of sampled pipe organs.
Skinner Opus 708 - The Parish of All Saints, Ashmont/Boston, MA - 2015
Jonathan Ortloff was honored to be part of the team assembled by Jonathan Ambrosino to complete the restoration and relocation of Skinner Opus 708.
The Parish of All Saints, Ashmont, in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, is one of two Anglo-Catholic parishes in the city and worships in the first church building designed by Ralph Adams Cram and Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue.
Wurlitzer Opus 970 - Strand Theatre, Plattsburgh, NY - 2013
Wurlitzer Opus 970 was built in 1924 for the Colney Theatre in Philadelphia, and was subsequently owned by Leonard and Louise Johnson of Hingham, MA. In 2004 the Johnsons donated the organ to the Strand Theatre in Plattsburgh, NY. Though added to, the orignial core of the organ, including the electro-pneumatic relay and combination action, remained unaltered.