The Verdin Company

The Verdin Company began in 1842 when brothers Francis de Sales and Michael Verdin installed the first tower clock in the United States at Old St. Mary's Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Verdin Company has been a family business for six generations. Bob Verdin, a member of the sixth generation, is currently the company's CEO. The bells were cast in a trailer-mounted foundry, the only mobile bell foundry in the world. The company's pipe organ division was created in 2016. The former church complex that now serves as the company's headquarters was begun in 1848 as St. Paul's Church, the seventh German Catholic church in Cincinnati. It was heavily remodeled by Samuel Hannaford after a fire in 1899. The building was deconsecrated in 1975 and acquired by the Verdin Company in 1981. ==Notable installations and inventions==

Inventions In 1927, the Verdin Company built the first electric bell ringer in America and replaced manually operated bells in the 1930s and 1940s with electrification. In 2015, Verdin finished the construction of a 19x6ft Big-like foot piano (32 keys, 32 bells) installed at Smale Riverfront Park in Cincinnati. ==See also==