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Michael Macdonald began his career in organ building in 1961 when he was apprenticed to Andrew Watt & Son, the well established Glasgow Organ Builders. In 1965, the firm was sold and he began working with Messrs Casey & Cairney, also of Glasgow and former Watt Employees, until eventually joining J.W.Walker & Sons in 1970 as their West of Scotland Tuner. During the period with Walkers, he had the privilege of working on many vast, interesting instruments, such as those in the Cathedrals of Glasgow and Carlisle, and the Abbeys at Dunfermline and Paisley. In 1975 he decided to break away from Walkers and set up his own company. |
| In 1991 Michael's oldest Son, Andrew joined the firm from Stevenson College, Edinburgh, where he had been engaged in the study of early keyboard tuning temperaments. This has proved to be extremely useful, as we are privileged to be the tuners for the mobile organs used by the
S.N.O., the S.C.O., Capela Nova, Concerto Caledonia and the B.B.C. Over the years, apart from the joy of working on instruments large and small, we have had the real pleasure of saving numerous historic organs by removing them from redundant buildings to allow careful restoration and re-housing in good homes, examples of which can be seen and heard all over Scotland. |
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