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Also: France: People: By occupation: Musical instrument makers: Pipe organ builders Pages in category "French pipe organ builders" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
Benson George Bristol 1881- 1911 built Organs in primitive methodist churches around the city - mainly demolished. Appears in Arrowsmith Directory of Bristol 1906. Bishop & Sons (1795–present ) – London and Ipswich [ 46 ]
Möller remained the primary supplier of additions until after World War II. Today this mostly-Möller organ is the world's largest all-pipe organ in a religious structure, although the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, California makes a similar claim with its two pipe organs.
An early factory (no longer used by Schoenstein & Co.) in San Francisco is one of the few factories built for organ-building and the building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, under the name "Schoenstein and Company Pipe Organ Factory" since 1978; [3] [2] and is listed as a San Francisco Designated Landmark, under the name ...
French pipe organ builders (24 P) Pages in category "French musical instrument makers" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
The Center-France bagpipes (called in French cornemuse du centre or musette du centre) are of many different types, some mouth blown, some bellows blown; some names for these instruments include chevrette (which means "little goat," referring to the use of a goatskin for its bag), chabrette, chabretta, chabreta, cabreta, bodega, and boha.
The organ of Merton College Chapel, Oxford (2013). Dobson Pipe Organ Builders is a manufacturer of pipe organs based in Lake City, Iowa.. The company was founded in 1974 by Iowa native Lynn A. Dobson, who served as President and Artistic Director until his retirement in February, 2020, when long-time colleague John A. Panning assumed ownership. [1]
The pipes can be built of wood or metal, but are overwhelmingly constructed of wood in modern organ building (French makers from Cavaillé-Coll on prefer metal). They are thick-walled and generally square in cross-section, with a high mouth cut-up to produce the fluty tone. Bourdon is a stopped pipe, having an airtight stopper fitted into the top.