Organ building is the profession of designing, building, restoring and maintaining pipe organs. The organ builder usually receives a commission to design...

The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called wind) through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard. Because...

largest church organs in the United States and is considered to be one of the finest examples of the American Classic style of organ building. Inspired by...

Holtkamp Organ Company. When Gottlieb Votteler opened his shop for building pipe organs in Cleveland in 1855, he built small instruments with mechanical...

An organ stop is a component of a pipe organ that admits pressurized air (known as wind) to a set of organ pipes. Its name comes from the fact that stops...

The Wanamaker Grand Court Organ, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the largest fully functioning pipe organ in the world, based on the number...

The organ repertoire is considered to be the largest and oldest repertory of all musical instruments. Because of the organ's (or pipe organ's) prominence...

Casavant Frères is a Canadian organ building company in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, which has been building pipe organs since 1879. As of 2014, the company...

The Organ Reform Movement or Orgelbewegung (also called the Organ Revival Movement) was a mid-20th-century trend in pipe organ building, originating in...

instrument, widely considered to reflect a style unique to American organ building. The organ is meticulously maintained in original playing condition, including...

large-scale building and restoration projects around the globe in more than a century of organ building. Johannes Klais studied organ building in Alsace...

Midmer-Losh Organ Company is a defunct pipe organ building business located in Merrick, New York. Reuben Midmer founded his own organ-building company in...

perfect organs ever built." The Tabernacle organ is considered to be one of the finest examples of the American Classic style of organ building. The casework...

practice and organ building worldwide. In recent decades, the public has become increasingly aware of the value of these instruments and the organ landscape...

the organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means (generally woodwind or electric) for producing tones. The organs have...

century, national styles of organ building began to emerge. Organs had certain unique characteristics that were common to organs in the country in which they...

Wicks Organ Company is an organ manufacturer in Highland, Illinois in the United States where they build, repair, and restore organs. The Wicks Organ Company...

innovations in the art and science of organ building that permeated the profession and influenced the course of organ building, composing and improvising through...

Pécs Organ Manufactory Ltd. (POM) was found in September, 1992. At the moment POM is the biggest organ building company in Hungary. The manufactory employs...

Ephreme. The organ builder Georges Danion took over the firm in 1956 at which point it was renamed Gonzalez-Danion. Danion studied organ building under Gonzalez...

the organ shipped to Germany for restoration. For its anticipated return in 1975, the home church of the bamboo organ and the surrounding buildings were...

The Sea organ (Croatian: Morske orgulje) is an architectural sound art object located in Zadar, Croatia and an experimental musical instrument, which...

The Schuke-organ was later replaced by a new organ, built by Gerald Woehl's organ building company from 1999 to 2000. This "Bach organ" was designed...

Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company, Inc. of Boston, Massachusetts was an American builder of a large number of pipe organs from its inception as the Skinner Organ Company...

whole new school of organ building, known as the English Organ Reform Movement, influencing in the UK alone the cathedral organs of Coventry and Blackburn...

of London, but became disillusioned with the conservatism of English organ building, so left for further training with Rieger, in Austria. On his return...

is considered to be the "Father of Organ Building in the American West", and is remembered for building pipe organs of exceptional beauty and quality....

The Felgemaker Organ Company was a manufacturer of pipe organs based out of Erie, Pennsylvania, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was founded...

Kœnig pipe organ builders, known as manufacture d'orgues Kœnig, is a French firm that designs, builds and restores pipe organs. This organ building, family-owned...

"The Art of Organ Building and Organ Playing in Germany and France" (1906, republished with an appendix on the state of the organ-building industry in...