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Organ of Basilica of Valère. It is generally agreed upon that the world's oldest playable pipe organ is located in the Basilica of Valère in Sion, Switzerland.Built around 1435, most of the case is original, but only 12 pipes are original, as the rest have been replaced during restorations.
The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air ... Hydraulis from the 1st century BC, oldest organ found to date, ...
The organ in Rysum. The Rysum organ in Rysum Church in Rysum, north Germany, is the oldest instrument of its kind in northern Europe that still largely has its original pipes. It is also one of the oldest playable church organs in the world alongside those in Sion, St. Valentin in Kiedrich, and Ostönnen. The exact date of its construction is ...
The First German Lutheran Church in Manitowoc was made in 1919. The 105-year-old pipe organ needed an updated electrical system, a few new pipes, and console and facade repairs and overall ...
The Pipe organ is considered the oldest keyboard instrument in the world. It was built in the 3rd century BC, invented by the engineer Ctesibius in Alexandria. The height of the instrument is 120 cm, width 70 cm. The organ pipes are arranged in two stops and consist of 24 pipes with a diameter of 18 mm and 16 narrow pipes with about 10 mm diameter.
Austin-one of the country's oldest manufacturers of pipe organs-may be crafting music machines, but you could easily mistake their output for the components of a space shuttle...the kind da Vinci ...
Bedient Pipe Organ Company, Lincoln, Nebraska [128] Bigelow & Company, American Fork, Utah [129] Buzard Pipe Organ Builders, LLC Champaign, IL (1985–) [130] GM Buck Pipe Organs, [131] Grand Rapids, Michigan; John Brombaugh & Associates, Eugene, Oregon; Dobson Pipe Organ Builders, Lake City, Iowa; E. and G. G. Hook & Hastings, Boston ...
For six generations since its founding in 1873, Schantz Organ Co. has worked on pipe and reed organs for churches across the globe.