MESSRS.  CZELUSNIAK  ET  DUGAL,  INC.
Northampton, Massachusetts

The firm of Messrs. Czelusniak et Dugal, Inc. was established in Northampton, Massachusetts in 1971 as the partnership of William F. Czelusniak and Francis E. Dugal to provide pipe organ tuning and maintenance services.  The firm grew rapidly as the demand for local, reliable, and quality work was substantial.  By 1976, work was full-time for Bill Czelusniak, and the partners were already serving Smith College, Amherst College, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, in addition to numerous churches of various denominations.  The firm incorporated in January 1978 with Richard M. Frary, Jr. as Vice-President, a position that he still holds today.  Since 1987, the firm also has served Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in their summer home at Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts.

Regular tuning and maintenance work led inevitably to larger repair and restoration projects.  A sampling of work experiences is as follows.  In 1979, the firm rebuilt the c.1875 Pomplitz tracker organ in Cummington, Mass.; a strict historical restoration of the 1856 Wm. A. Johnson tracker organ in Montague Center, Mass. was executed in 1984.  In 1989, the firm rebuilt the 1902 J. W. Steere & Son pipe organ in Immaculate Conception R. C. Church, Easthampton, Mass., which project prepared for the careful and sympathetic enlargement of this organ to 2 manuals and 24 ranks between 1999 and 2001.  In 1996, the firm relocated into the new church building and enlarged the 1987 Theodore Gilbert organ for St. Cecilia R. C. Parish in Wilbraham, Mass., and in 2004 executed a comparable project with the 1961 Austin organ in St. Mary Star of the Sea R. C. Church, Unionville, Conn., including the design and installation of custom-made speaking façade pipes to suit the new space.

The firm’s 1993 reconstitution of the much-altered Ernest M. Skinner organ (now 3 manuals and 34 ranks) in the Skinner Memorial Chapel, Holyoke, Mass., amounted to a new instrument with much reused pipework.  Also at the United Congregational Church, Holyoke, Mass., the firm has restored the historic 4-manual, 70-rank, magnum Opus 322 of 1921, from the Skinner Organ Co., Boston, Mass.  Finished for Easter of 2000, the firm executed a rebuilding at St. Joseph Basilica, Webster, Mass., which provided a new organ of 2 manuals and 25 ranks, behind a stunning polychromed (marbleized) casework with speaking façades. The majority of pipework for this project was used stock, judiciously selected, restored and revoiced, about one-third of which was retained from the prior, conglomerate instrument in this place. 

In Worcester, Mass., the firm has rebuilt the 4-manual, 1926 Skinner Organ Co. drawknob console for Wesley United Methodist Church, installing state-of-the-art operating components inside, while striving to restore and maintain all original controls, construction, and appearance outside.  In 2004-2005, the firm executed a partial retonalization of the Æolian-Skinner Organ Co. Opus 1380 of 1962 in the Asylum Hill Congregational Church, Hartford, Conn.  The project following that was to complete the rebuilding and enlargement of the 1962 Berkshire Organ Co., Inc. instrument in the Second Congregational Church, Westfield, Mass., where improvements had been begun already by Austin Organs, Inc. of Hartford.

Messrs. Czelusniak et Dugal, Inc. is thoroughly experienced in a wide range of pipe organ repair, rebuilding, restoration, enlargement, and tonal activities, addressing instruments of all makes, ages, and actions.  The firm is recognized for consummate craftsmanship, imagination and creativity in tonal additions and renovations, thoroughness and responsibility in restoration and rebuilding commissions, and integrity and professionalism in all endeavors.  The senior employees of the firm are members of the American Institute of Organbuilders, the American Guild of Organists, the Organ Historical Society, the International Society of Organbuilders, and the American Theatre Organ Society.