Organ builder

A organ builder (or organier ) is a craftsman (or an artisanal company) specialized in the manufacture and the maintenance of complete Orgue S and the many parts entering their construction. According to the importance of the maintenance actions, one speaks about de-dusting , raising , restoration (often with identical the ), of rebuilding .

This trade requires the control of many disciplines, of which joinery, mechanics, the work and the forming metals, of the skins and the plastics, electricity and electrical engineering, data processing, as well as musical knowledge and Acoustique S very serious. It is indexed among the trades of the craft industry of Art.

The sonority of the organ, adapted to the room in which the instrument is established, is worked by the Harmoniste.

For this trade, " facteur" comes from Latin: facere = to make, in other words an organ builder in the beginning was a maker of organ

Famous organ builders

  • the Abbey

  • Barker (France), inventor of the pneumatic fluid power, manufacturer with Ducroquet of the organ of the church Saint-Eustace.
  • Dom Bedos of Those, author of the famous treaty the Art of the organ builder , Paris, 1766, still read today.
  • the family Bushel: Robert, Jean-Wolf and Jean-Baptiste (France)
  • CH. Boisselier (Provence, France)
  • Jean Boizard (France)
  • the brothers Cahmann (Scandinavia)
  • the Callinet and Daublaine (France)
  • the brothers Casavant, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec (Canada)
  • the Cavaillé (Guyenne, Languedoc, Paris, France), and mainly Aristide.
  • the Clicquot (France)
  • Compenius (Germany)
  • the Dallam, organ builders royal in England, which had to be exiled in Brittany to flee the civil war, where they produced many instruments.
  • Dallery (Northern, France)
  • Louis Debierre (France)
  • E. Dejardin (Paris, France)
  • Pierre Alexandre Ducroquet (France)
  • Bernhard Dreymann (Germany)
  • Victor Gonzalez (France)
  • the Grinda (County of Nice)
  • R. Ingout (Normandy, France)
  • the Isnard (Provence, France))
  • of Merry (France)
  • Kern (France)
  • the Lefebvre (Normandy, France)
  • Pescheur (France)
  • the Lépine
  • the Merklin (Lyon, France)
  • Jean-Baptiste Micot
  • Louis Mitchell Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
  • Mulheisen (France)
  • Charles Mutin (Paris, France)
  • the Parisot (Normandy, France)
  • the Puget (Toulouse, France)
  • Pascal Quoirin (France)
  • Them brothers Riepp (Burgundy, France)
  • Létourneau (St-Hyacinthe, Quebec)
  • Alain Sals (France)
  • Scherer (Germany)
  • Arp Schnitger (Germany)
  • Schwenkedel (France)
  • Serrassi (Italy)
  • the Silbermann (Alsace, France)
  • the Stiehr and Mockers
  • the Stoltz (France)
  • William George Trice (Genoa, Italy)
  • the Verschneider (Lorraine, France)
  • Rudolf von Beckerath (Germany)
  • Henry Willis & Ltd sounds. (United Kingdom)

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • Organ builders listed by the ministry for the Culture

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