David Wallace apprenticed in pipe organ restoration with the Andover Organ Company of Lawrence, MA. David received his early musical training in piano and organ from Eleanor Wallace, John Fay and Stewart Shuster. After completing college, a graduate degree and a career as a language translator in two languages for the U. S. Air Force, Wallace founded David E. Wallace & Company Pipe Organ Builders as a pipe organ service company in southern Maine. The company has grown and has specialized primarily in the restoration and renovation of historic mechanical action instruments as well as the construction of new mechanical action pipe organs. Wallace & Co. instruments are located across the U.S. and also in Europe. Wallace has authored numerous articles for organ journals and magazines on pipe organ restoration and several specific instruments including Portland, Maine’s historic Kotzschmar Memorial Organ.