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Fratelli Ruffatti Newsletter - December 2009
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Fratelli Ruffatti Newsletter - November 2009
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Steinway Piano Gallery, Washington, DC opens to the public.
Churches, schools, homes and concert venues in Washington and Baltimore now have an impressive selection of new Steinway grand and upright pianos from which to choose.
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Used 40 rank pipe organ for sale

Details can be found on our used organ page:  http://www.dafferorgans.com/pre-owned-organs/

 

 
Awards to company principals given at annual dealer meeting.

Three awards were given out to the owners of R.A. Daffer Church Organs, Inc., at Rodgers' annual national meeting, held in Cincinnati.  Ken Brown received recognition for 25 years of unbroken service representing Rodgers, Bob Daffer for thirty years, and Al Murrell for 35 years.  For the 18th time in the last 20 years, they also were named Rodgers top dealer by dollar volume.

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Pictured are Rick Anderson, National Sales Manager;  Ken Brown and Kent Holland, Regional Sales Manager.  Ken is receiving the award for 25 years service representing Rodgers.

 

 

 

bob_award_webPictured are Rick Anderson, National Sales Manager;  Bob Daffer and Kent Holland, Regional Sales Manager.  Bob is receiving the award for 30 years of  representing Rodgers.

 

 

 

 

 

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  Pictured are Rick Anderson, National Sales Manager;  Al Murrell and Kent Holland, Regional Sales Manager.  Al is receiving the award for 35 years of representing Rodgers.

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New Ruffatti Organ dedicated in Sweden

The new Ruffatti Pipe Organ at the Domkyrka in Uppsala, Sweden, is now finished.  To view the specificaton of this four manual, 73 rank organ, please go here:  html Uppsala specification

To hear the dedication concert on this new organ, go here: asp?type=broadcast&id=1642962&broadcastdate=&isblock= Ruffatti Dedication

 
George Beverly Shea was presented with a surprise gift of a Rodgers Trillium Masterpiece organ
 Gospel singer George Beverly Shea was presented with a surprise gift of a Rodgers Trillium Masterpiece three-manual organ last night at his 100th birthday party. Dealer Susie Waldrop of Waldrop House of Music worked closly with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association to make Mr. Shea's dream of owning a new Rodgers organ come true. The complete story and a wonderful photo has been posteed on the Rodgers website at http://www.rodgersinstruments.com/SheaGift.
 
President Obama and Rodgers
On January 20th, President Obama, Vice President Biden and the new cabinet attended their first church at Saint John's Episcopal Church, Washington, DC.  Known as "The Church of the Presidents", the organ that used to lead the worship service was a Rodgers Three Manual Digital Organ, leased by the church until their new pipe organ can be installed.  It was installed and voiced by R.A. Daffer Church Organs in December of 2008.  Pictures of the event can be found on the church's web site: http://www.stjohns-dc.org/article.php?id=78.
 
New Rodgers 538 and 548 models
The new Rodgers 538 and 548 are two highly featured organs with internal audio.  The only difference is physical size and the 538 has a 27 note pedalboard and the 548 has an AGO pedalboard.  These organs can be expanded to two and four channel external audio system.  They feature multiple memories, general and divisional pistons, piston sequencer pistons, memory +/- pistons, USB interface for storing musical sequences and expanding the combination action, built-in record/playback, note-by-note/stop-by-stop voicing, velocity keyboards, Rodgers' Voice Palette stops and many other features.  Full specifications can be seen at:  http://www.rodgersinstruments.com/rodgersOrgans/11
 
EMAIL us for General Sales info or to schedule service
By going to our "Contact Us" page you can select between two forms that will be sent directly to us once you submit the form.  We have a form for general sales information type of request or to register for a workshop and another form to submit for a service call or pipe tunings.  We hope you will take advantage of these online forms when needed.