Grooms & Payne, Ltd.

03/31/2025

This is fascinating, about the Grove Park Inn and its two organs. It even mentions the company that took care of the Skinner organ, which is the company George later owned and operated. He remembers Mr. Lewis talking about tuning there.

Come explore some of the musical history of the Grove Park Inn, in Asheville, North Carolina. We'll take a deep dive into not one, but TWO different pipe organs that entertained guests of the famed Grove Park Inn from 1916 to 1929. Sit back with a cup of coffee and enjoy photos, recordings and docum...

11/27/2024

11/10/2024

A huge thanks to the organ magician, George, and his two helpers, Andrew and Brian (and Randy!) for their work on the organ pedalboard this week! 🎶

01/24/2024

03/16/2022

02/05/2021

We sponsored this recital as part of last summer’s annual Hymn Society Conference. It is a recital featuring music of African-American composers, played by Charlie Frost,
an African-American organist.

12/28/2020

Join us for a very special Christmas Festival of Lessons and Carols here at St. John's Episcopal Church, Halifax, VA USA, led by the Reverend Timothy Jones,...

12/07/2020

News from your friendly pipe organ builders!

News from Grooms & Payne, Ltd. Pipe Organ Builders Grooms & Payne Gazette December 2020 Greetings! I just received a link to the Washington Post article with the headline: “New U.S. coronavirus cases

09/16/2020

One of our organs! Tune in!