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unusual facts about Organ building


Organ building

The organ builder usually receives a commission to design an organ with a particular disposition of stops, manuals, and actions, creates a design to best respond to spatial, technical and acoustic considerations, and then constructs the instrument.



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Aabenraa

There is varied industry in the city, including Marcussen's Organ Building (Marcussens Orgelbyggeri) and Callesens Machineworks (Callesens Maskinfabrik).

Alexandre Thierry

Alexandre Thierry (c. 1646 - 1699) was a French organ builder, son of the organ builder Pierre Thierry, and the most distinguished of the second generation of this organ-building dynasty.

Dirk Andries Flentrop

To honor his achievements, in 1968 Flentrop was awarded an honorary doctorate in musicology by the American Oberlin College, Ohio for his "pioneering work in classic organ building".

Limonaire Frères

After restructuring in 1887, the company expanded so well based on book-based organs, that they opened a factory in the German Black Forest town of Waldkirch, center of fairground organ building industry.

Nicolas Lebègue

He was equally famous as an expert on organ building: in this capacity, Lebègue travelled as far as Bourges, Blois, Chartres, Soissons, and Troyes.

Peter Planyavsky

As an organ expert, Planyavsky was instrumental in organ-building projects, notably the construction of the new Rieger organ in the Great Hall of the Wiener Musikverein, which he planned in collaboration with Ludger Lohmann, Martin Haselböck, Gillian Weir, and Olivier Latry.