Randall Dyer & Associates, Inc.

Welcome to our web site. We appreciate your visit. The site offers us the opportunity to provide you with much more information about our firm, the organs we have built, and upcoming events, than would ever be possible with printed literature.

A little history: the first Dyer organ was assembled while I was in high school. My father and grandfather surprised me late one afternoon, with a truck load of old Moller organ that was being removed from a church in middle Tennesse. Unfortunately, the pipes were at the bottom of the stack! But I eventually made an organ out of it, and practiced organ lessons on it for several years.

What would be our first project where money was exchanged, was built while I was a college junior, for the local Carson-Newman College, using parts willed to the school by the estate of a deceased organ repair man in Knoxville.

From the time I was a student in the Music Department at the University Tennessee, and for many years afterward, in addition to being in the organ business, I was also a church organist/choirmaster. At one point, I was even the President of the congregation, and wound up overseeing the hiring of a new minister.

But in the early 2000’s, while our firm was engaged in making additions to the already nice, but undersized Aeolian-Skinner organ at Church Street United Methodist Church, in Knoxville, I gave up my seat on the bench and moved my membership there, due in no small part to the fine music program. The organ, which had started life as an instrument of 3 manuals and 46 ranks, has 4 manuals and 84 ranks today, with preparations for 90, and includes both a large Solo division, with a wide pallet of colorful sounds, and a stand-alone Antiphonal in the back balcony that can also be played from that location. It is an outstanding instrument in every way, that fills the room with a full, rich sound, which, even at FFF, is not overbearing. It has a “wraps its arms around you” kind of sound that supports and makes the congregation WANT to sing. And sing, they do!

On All Saint’s Day 2019, I attended what may well have been the most moving church experience of my life. The nave was full, the choir and instrumentalists were spilling out into the center of the chancel, the congregational singing was good, and the main event, the Rutter “Requiem” was nothing short of outstanding. I am man enough to admit that my eyes were moist throughout much of the service, and I went away thinking, “THIS IS WHY WE DO IT!”

I am talking, of course, about building pipe organs. We have done it 104 times now. And while each experience draws on the history of our previous work, each organ has always been a creation of its own; something special for the church involved; something to help its congregation sing well.

We stand ready to build an outstanding organ for your church; one that will wrap its musical arms around YOUR congregation and entice them to sing, too.

Be in touch. We would love to hear from you.

Randall Dyer. 865-567-7224