From Organ Database Builders editor Stephen Hall, April 28, 2018. -

Shawn Sanders began as a key holder and apprentice in 1982 working with Paul Jernigan and the Texas-based Casavant Freres Incorporated, doing installations of new instruments for that firm, and routine maintenance on pipe organs of all makes.

Upon graduation from high school in 1985, Sanders became a full time employee for over a year until being accepted into Texas A&M University to study engineering.

Sanders returned to work with Jernigan in the summer of 1987 and helped with the transition from Casavant to the creation of Pipe Organ Technicians in the summer of 1990.

Sanders has installed pipe organs in New York, Pennsylvania, California, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. He is the owner of Pipe Organ Technicians of Houston, Texas, which he inherited upon the death of Paul Jernigan in March of 2015.

Source:

• Pipe Organ Technicians website, accessed April 28, 2018, http://pipeorgantechnicians.com/index.html.