Ballard Pipe Organ Company

Active: Unknown - Present Type: BuilderBuilder ID: 310

Distinction:

San Antonio, Texas, 1980s to at least 2008.

Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, rev. ed. by David H. Fox (Organ Historical Society, 1997). -

Operated Ballard Pipe Organs of San Antonio, Texas, by 1986; active 1996.

Staff: G. Mark Caldwell; Peter W. Chappell.

Sources:

  • American Institute of Organbuilders, Membership Roll: 1982.
  • American Institute of Organbuilders, Membership Roll: 1986.
  • American Institute of Organbuilders, Membership Roll: 1996.


Database Manager on August 25th, 2016:
From the OHS PC Database Builders Listing editor, Mar 15, 2016. -

John G. Ballard operated Ballard Pipe Organs of San Antonio, Texas from the 1980s; the firm was active until at least 2008, although it was reorganized under the name John G. Ballard & Associates, LLC in 2005.1 The firm serviced and rebuilt electro-pneumatic instruments, and may have been associated with the Rodgers Instruments firm; the firm did the pipe work for the pipe/electronic combination instrument at St. Theresa Catholic Church in Austin, Texas in 2008.2 The firm was no longer active in 2016.

Sources:

  1. CorporationWiki, John G. Ballard, http://www.corporationwiki.com/Texas/San-Antonio/john-g-ballard-associates-llc/37181212.aspx, Accessed Jan. 11, 2016
  2. Rodgers Instruments website, http://www.rodgersinstruments.com/installation/st-theresa-catholic-church-austin, Accessed Jan. 11, 2016.
  3. CorporationWiki, John G. Ballard

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Database Specs:

  • 8 Instruments
  • 0 Consoles
  • 0 Blowers

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