Benicia, CA – Schoenstein & Co. has announced a new website, easy to navigate and fully responsive for mobile devices and tablets. Many new features have been added including an opus list with immediate access to any stop list. The instruments are sorted by state, name and denomination of client, number of voices (stops) and […]
Villingen, an historic and charming walled city near Baden-Baden in Germany’s beautiful Black Forest, was the home of the original Schoenstein firm where Felix F. Schoenstein learned the trade from his family before emigrating to America to establish Schoenstein & Co.. Ed Schoenstein, grandson of Felix, and his wife Patricia visited Villingen to meet family […]
Schoenstein & Co. is building an organ of two-manuals, 14-voices, 16-ranks for Mikell Chapel at the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta. The organ, which replaces an electronic instrument, is in the symphonic style and includes a double expressive division within the Swell. In the E.M. Skinner tradition, a comprehensive Swell division is duplexed onto […]
The Nashville Symphony’s recording of works by composer Stephen Paulus earned a GRAMMY® for Best Classical Compendium at the 58th annual awards ceremony, February 15th. Maestro Giancarlo Guerrero is conductor and Nathan Laube is organ soloist for the three movement Grand Concerto for organ and orchestra. Schoenstein president, Jack Bethards, credits American Guild of Organists […]
Schoenstein & Co. held an Open House celebrating the completion of two new organs for Fordham University in New York City. The event drew an estimated 200 visitors including 21 members of the Schoenstein family representing the fourth, fifth and sixth generations. The group included the eldest Schoenstein organ builder, Bertram age 95, shown front […]
