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Schoenstein & Co. formerly known as Felix F. Shoenstein and Sons, is the oldest and largest organ builder in the western United States.It was founded in 1877 by Felix F. Schoenstein in San Francisco, California; the company is now based in Benicia, California.
Organ Historical Society Pipe Organ Database for nearly complete list, current and historical. ... Fabry Inc. Pipe Organ Builders ... Van Nuys, California (1920s ...
The wider the pipe, the greater the suppression. Thus, other factors being equal, wide pipes are poor in harmonics, and narrow pipes are rich in harmonics. The scale of a pipe refers to its width compared to its length, and an organ builder will refer to a flute as a wide-scaled stop, and a string-toned gamba as a narrow-scaled stop.
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. Möller rebuilt and expanded the Naval Academy Chapel Organ in 1940, and built the organ for the Air Force Academy Chapel in 1963.
Console of Robert Morton Organ at the Jefferson Theatre. The Robert Morton Organ Company was an American producer of theater pipe organs and church organs, located in Van Nuys, California. Robert Morton was the number two volume producer of theatre organs, building approximately half as many organs as the industry leader Wurlitzer. The name ...
Veteran organ builder Laurent Mesme’s company, Orgues Quoirin, was one of three workshops chosen from across France to restore the Grand Organ. Mesme described the process as “incredible ...
Murray M. Harris and Organ Building in Los Angeles, 1894-1913 by David Lennox Smith, edited by Orpha Ochse and published in 2005 by the Organ Historical Society, is the standard Harris Co. history. Since its publication extensive additional information has been discovered in the papers of Eben Smith, onetime company president, at the Denver ...
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