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 HISTORY
David E. Wallace & Co. LLC., was founded in 1982 by David E. Wallace in Portland, Maine. The company moved to Gorham, Maine in 1984, where it specializes in the restoration and renovation of smaller tracker and electropneumatic pipe organs for delivery throughout New England and the United States. Our instruments serve the music community in churches, schools, and private homes from northern Maine to Washington state.
Our restorations include instruments that range in size from the very smallest and oldest to one of the largest in the country (Portland, Maine City Hall's famed Kotzschmar Memorial Organ, pictured above). The instruments of historical signficance have been restored in accordance with the Guidelines For Historic Preservation set forth by the Organ Historical Society.
Wallace & Co. provides historical information and technical support -- as well as consultation and appraisal services -- to churches and institutions planning the installation or restoration of a pipe organ. Working with the Organ Clearing House, our company is able to provide a resource for existing instruments that can be installed at a significantly lower cost than that of a new pipe organ.
David E. Wallace, MSBA, apprenticed as an organ builder with Andover Organ Company, Inc. of Methuen, MA. He is an active member of the American Institute of Organbuilders and The Organ Historical Society, and is a Past Dean of the Portland, Maine Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. Mr. Wallace is an organist who plays some of the smaller historic pipe organs in the Portland, Maine area. |
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