The stated goal of the firm was the building of fine quality small to medium sized instruments with special emphasis on restoration of older instruments.

Our first three organ restorations included:

• the rebuilding of a 1902 Steere Organ 
• a restoration of a 1982 Frank Beman Instrument
• an 1872 Votter Organ from Cleveland, Ohio

Leonard, Owner of L.A. Carlson Company, credentials include:

• Graduated from Susquehanna University - 1953
• Graduated from Union Theological Seminary, School of Sacred Music, 1955
• Fulbright Scholarship for study in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, 1955

Mr. Carlson has taught and lectured at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York, The College of St. Rose in Albany, New York, and The Crane School of Music, Potsdam State College located in Potsdam, New York.

L.A. Carlson Company has built over 185 instruments.  The smallest of them contains 2 ranks and 146 pipes for Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY.  The largest is in the First Baptist Church, Rome, New York with 50 ranks and 2,600 pipes.

In 1980 the firm became associated with the Rodgers Organ Company of Hillsboro, Oregon.  Since that time, our firm while continuing to build pipe organs, has designed and installed over 200 Rodgers Instruments, including many pipe and digital combination instruments.

The firm has continued to grow over the years to include technicians, cabinetmakers, pipe voicers, and organ architects and engineers.