Gene R. Bedient, organ, piano
assisted by The Cathedral Brass

The Bedient Company, founded in Lincoln in 1969, custom designs and builds pipe organs for America's churches, universities, concert halls, and colleges. The Bedient Company employs fifteen people and makes all parts of their pipe organs from raw materials at its Lincoln location. Bedient builds new mechanical action and electro-pneumatic slider action pipe organs as well as engagin in rebuilds and offering outstnading pipe organ service. The Bedient Company is a Nebraska corporation registered as The Lincoln Organ Company. The Company has built organs for Queens College in New York City, Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Charleston, South Carolina, Saint Rita Catholic Church, Dallas, Texas, Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin, Saint Andrew;s Episcopal Church, Roswell, New Mexico, and many other churches and colleges across the country. Bedent has recently completed a large instrument for Saint Paul United Methodist Church in Lincoln.

The Bedient Company's first shop in 1969 and 1970 was at 1321 N. 53rd Street. From 1970 through 1981, the shop was located at 344 S. 18th, from 1981 until 1999, the shope was located at 4221 N.W. 37th Street in Lincoln's Airpark subdivision. In February 1999 the Company moved to the new location at U.S. Highway 77 and Saltillo Road. The new 11,000 square foot building features a 25 x 40 foot assembly tower 40 feet tall, located in teh center of the building. The wood shop, pipe shop, machine shop, and offices are situated around the outside of the central assembly tower. This new state-of-the-art facility is specifically designed for the efficient design and construction of pipe organs.

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