Preserving the historic organ landscape represents a tremendous challenge for Hey Organbuilders. Thus careful maintenance, servicing, and repair of instruments is every bit as important as manufacturing new organs.

Old organs and their master builders must be acknowledged and respected. This is one of the most important tasks of an organ building workshop, especially in the present day. Restoration demands maximum sensitivity, meticulousness and skill in using old materials and working methods. The Hey Organbuilders are familiar with the old masters of the Franconian (Main), Hessian, and Thuringian organ building, last but not least because of their own great tradition.

German reunification has also reestablished ties to the great Thuringian tradition of organ building. Before the former inter - German border was established, the firm's present-day location in Urspringen/Rhoen used to belong to the Meiningen Administrative District in Thuringia.

Hey Organbuilders has recovered a bit of its own tradition. That is one more reason to look forward to the future.

The 300th Hey organ was dedicated in 1994. Hey has rebuilt, expanded, and restored countless other organs. In all, the Hey workshop currently attends to more than 450 organs.

Preserve, protect, and renew - this remains Hey's motto.

"Constant quality, continually checking our highest standards to see if we measure up - this is the only way to prove that we are worthy of the trust our clients place in Hey Organbuilders and equal to the justifiably high demands they make of us."