The Sanctuary Organ was built by the Bedient Pipe Organ Company in 1992. This 2-manual, 11-rank tracker pipe organ was installed when the new sanctuary at BUMC was completed in 1992. The organ beautifully fills the worship space of the 400 seat sanctuary.
This unique organ is a compilation of advances in organ building but is as close a representation of a 17th and 18th century European organ as you can get. Gene Bedient is one of only a few American organ builders who has studied 17th and 18th century European organ construction and applied those principles to the design of modern instruments.
The organ is entirely handmade, including the 668 individual pipes. The case is white oak, and other woods used in the instrument are sugar pine, mahogany, rosewood, ebony, western red cedar and poplar. It is a beautiful pipe organ with flawless craftsmanship.
The instrument is a "tracker" organ, an organ term synonymous with "mechanical action." It denotes a system of providing instantaneous air to the pipes. The "trackers" are small wooden linkages which are connected to the keys. When the organist depresses a key on the keyboard, a mechanical link inside the organ is pulled which then opens a valve system admitting air immediately to the corresponding pipe. This tracker system is extremely desirable because it gives the organist a rhythmic and melodic sensitivity in playing that is not possible with organs constructed by other methods.​

Bedient Pipe Organ Company, Opus 35     1992​

Swell                                      Great
Cornet II                                 Mixture III
Flute 2'                                   Octave 2'    
Spitzflute 4'                           Praestant 4'
Gedackt 8'                             Rohrflute 8'
II/I                                           I/Pedal
Subbass 16'                           II/Pedal
Tremolo