I’m Eric F. Keebler, and I’ve loved pipe organs for my entire life. When I was three years old I built organs out of my toy blocks. As a teenager I took organ lessons and discovered the joys of maintenance and tuning. I earned simultaneous degrees in Biochemistry and Music Composition and then started my own business making electric violins, learning computer-aided design (CAD) and CNC machining in the process.
In my 30s I re-entered the organ world as a volunteer, helping to take care of a 1906 Austin organ at St. John the Baptist in the Manayunk neighborhood of Philadelphia, PA. The friendships and professional connections I developed over the next few years led me to the Wanamaker Organ, where I was a staff member for two years and where I made many professional connections.
My first professional organ-related CAD project was the creation of chamber-layout diagrams for a proposed new organ for the Washington National Cathedral in 2014. I did my first pipe-organ renderings for Cornel Zimmer Organ Builders of Denver, NC; and also designed a console from scratch for them, infusing ergonomic principles and architectural references into a low-profile design holding over 300 stop-tabs (it is installed at Christ Church Episcopal, Greenville, SC, where it controls the combined tonal resources of two instruments).
I have helped Spencer Organ Co. with several installations in churches and private residences; and serve as their “first responder” and a regular tuner for the 10,010-pipe Aeolian organ at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA, which Spencer restored (and for which I designed and installed new console lighting in 2024). I am also taking care of the Aeolian organ at the Beaumont retirement community in Bryn Mawr, PA with my mentor Kevin Chun. I have done some flue-voicing work professionally; and also have a knack for imparting a sense of coherence and realism to electronic and hybrid organs, which is something of a guilty pleasure.
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