Dealer Spotlight: Watson Pipe Organ Company

Rodgers Instruments welcomes one of our newest dealers, Watson Pipe Organ Company, owned by Dusti Watson.

Watson Pipe Organ Company is based in Galesburg, Illinois. As a Rodgers / Global Organ Group dealership, it serves 151 counties in a tri-state area of Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa:

Watson Pipe Organ Company is a third-generation pipe organ company, founded by Russell L. Watson of Galesburg, IL in 1929. Russell Watson earned his degree in Theater Organ under the tutelage of Professor James Weddell at Knox College in 1927.  Russell played for several silent movies, performing on the Grand Barton Theater Organ at the Orpheum Theater in Galesburg, IL.  With the advent of ‘talkies,’ Russell turned his love of the pipe organ into building, restoring, and caring for the instruments dear to his heart.

Continuing with the admiration and respect for “The King of Instruments” that was instilled in three generations, we are blessed to carry on this heritage. 

Watson Pipe Organ Company has over 80 years of pipe organ installing, rebuilding, tuning, and maintenance experience. They service every make and model of pipe organ built – these include trackers, straight pneumatic, electro-pneumatic, electro-mechanical, straight primary, direct exhaust, and direct pallet type actions.

With all the pipe organ knowledge and experience, Dusti Watson is the perfect choice to offer a Rodgers pipe hybrid solution for new or existing pipes, as well as provide the best in digital organs: Rodgers, and the other organ brands under the umbrella of the Global Organ Group -- Johannus, Makin, and Copeman-Hart.