Our Work

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.