Introducing Benchmark Keyboards, Inc.

Dear Organist or Committee:

From childhood I was fascinated with church organs. Decades of lessons and practice gave me an opportunity to take advanced organ courses in College.

These interests turned into a business in 1980, that is, doing rebuilding of pipe organs, reed organs, player pianos, and Reproducer’s.

It was not until a franchise in New York State became available for Ahlborn-Galanti organs did my eye turn to a medium that was on the cusp of becoming a truly superior representation of pipe organ sound. The organ brands now represented by my company are the absolute pinnacle of current Digital Organ development and quality. Each brand offers unique instruments.

Currently the Viscount Vivace 20 is the world’s smallest and least expensive 2 manual church organ with 2010 pricing of $7,995. (FOB Hunt, NY) It features 31 stops with 110 selectable pipe voices in its onboard library, it is a spinet model with 13 pedals and a small footprint for small spaces.

Only from Benchmark can you find tracker style tall case organs. Both Eminent and Viscount offer several choices.

Only Benchmark offers drawbar clone organs. Viscount builds several models.

Only Benchmark offers organs with Physical Modeling as an approach to generating pipe like sounds. Eminent, Musicom and Unico (Unico Viscount) have various forms of Physical Modeling. The competition still hasn’t caught up with this technology.

Our organ brands are made in Italy, England and the Netherlands. They are not the “biggest or the most commonplace brands’, but instead offer the finest technology available and are much copied by better known brands. Indeed as each brings out dramatically innovative technology, ‘other brands’ race and often stumble in an effort to catch up. Other brands openly denigrate our builder’s technology, but then quietly introduce them into their instruments.

While other brands talk about their splendidly built cases, our brands concern themselves without splendidly realistic pipe –like sound. After all, we organists don’t swoon over cases; we are first and foremost organists who are concerned with the realism of pipe like sound. If our churches could afford a pipe organ, they’d have one. But financial realism must carry the day, so we concern ourselves with the best sound possible. It is interesting to note that one of our major competition brands as some of their cases built by one of our brands. Lets get to the heart of the issue. When it comes to warranties, parts, and repairs, our brands are also superior. Check out these facts and compare other brands with due diligence.

All of our organs warranties go with the organ, not the original purchaser.

All of our organ brands will sell repair parts directly to the owner. You can avoid Benchmark if you so desire. All of our organ brands stock parts for ALL their church models. Indefinitely! Also they don’t stock unused parts and sell them as new. All our parts are new.

All of our organs carry a 10 year factory warranty on electronics.

While being offered other brands, I turned them down. Can you guess why? QUALITY.

In the long run, Benchmark Keyboards is a dealership dedicated to the best in Church Organs. That is my commitment.

Sincerely Yours,
Brian A. Fahey

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