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List of pipe organ builders

This is a list of notable pipe organ builders.

Australia

  • William Anderson (1832–1921)
  • Australian Pipe Organs Pty Ltd
  • Robert Cecil Clifton (1854–1931)
  • William Davidson
  • J. E. Dodd & Sons Gunstar Organ Works
  • Fincham & Hobday
  • Geo. Fincham & Son
  • Alfred Fuller (1845–1923)
  • Hargraves Pipe Organs Pty Ltd
  • William Hill & Son & Norman & Beard Ltd (Australian subsidiary)
  • Peter D. G. Jewkes Pty Ltd
  • Johnson & Kinloch
  • Samuel Joscelyne
  • Carl Krüger (1802–1871)
  • Ernst Ladegast (1853–1937)
  • F. J. Larner & Co.
  • Laurie Pipe Organs
  • C. W. Leggo
  • Daniel Heinrich Lemke (c. 1832–1897)
  • Samuel Marshall
  • Joseph Massey (1854–1943)
  • James Moyle
  • Pierce Pipe Organs
  • Pipe Organs Victoria Pty. Ltd.
  • Pitchford & Garside
  • Roger Pogson
  • Charles Richardson (1847–1926)
  • William Leopold Roberts (died 1971), built "Memorial Organ" (1924–1961) for St Andrew's Church, Brighton
  • Ronald Sharp (1929–2021)
  • Knud Smenge
  • Frederick Taylor
  • Wakeley Pipe Organs Pty Ltd

Austria

Belgium

Canada

Cuba

  • Hermanos Cuayo (Fábricantes de Órganos, Holguin)

Czech Republic

Czechoslovakia

Denmark

France

Germany

Hungary

Ireland

  • Trevor Crowe
  • Kenneth Jones and Associates (1979–present) – Kilcoole, County Wicklow
  • Neiland & Creane Organ Builders (1990–present) – Wexford

Italy

Netherlands

New Zealand

Poland

  • Cepka Marek
  • Drozdowicz Jan
  • Jakubowski Mirosław
  • Kamińscy
  • Mollin Zdzisław
  • Nawrot Marian
  • Olejnik Adam
  • (finished)
  • Truszczyński Włodzimierz (finished)
  • Zych – Zakłady Organowe (the biggest Polish organbuilder)

Portugal

Slovenia

  • Skrabl (Å krabl) –
  • Orglarstvo Mocnik (Močnik) –

South Africa

  • R Muller – Potchestroom
  • van Schalkwyk Organ Builders – Cape Town & Surrounding areas
  • SAOB (South African Organ Builders / Suid Afrikaanse Orrel Bouers) – Pretoria (Now Defunct)
  • Cooper Gill & Tomkins – Cape Town
  • Pekelharing Organ Building – Port Elizabeth
  • Protea Orrelbouers – Brandfort
  • Jan Zielman Orrelbouers – Pretoria
  • Pyporrels (Werner Hurter) – Pretoria
  • AA Tod Organ Builders Cc ( Johannesburg)

Spain

  • Blancafort, OM.
  • Gerhard Grenzing
  • Lope Alberdi Ricalde (1869–1948)
  • Federico Acitores, Acitores Organería y Arte S.L.
  • Jordi Bosch
  • Rafael Puignau (1888-1979)

Sweden

Here are a few of the organ builders in Sweden. See the category "" for more.

Switzerland

Turkey

  • Istanbul Pipe Organ Team (?-present) – Istanbul

United Kingdom

Current (post-2016)

  • Balfour-Rowley Ltd. Organ Builders (2016–present) – Worksop
  • 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
  • W & A Boggis (1932–present) – Roydon, South Norfolk
  • F. Booth & Son Ltd. (1951–present) – Stanningley, West Yorkshire
  • Bower & Company (1972–present) – Wroxham, Norfolk
  • F. H. Browne & Sons (1870–present) – Canterbury, Kent.
  • From 1 October 2020 the company trades under the name of Mander Organs.
  • A. J. Carter Organ Builder Ltd. (1984–present) – Stanley, West Yorkshire
  • Clevedon Organ group (Clevedon Organs (UK) Ltd & Clevedon Pipe Organ Services, incorporating Daniel & Co Ltd (Clevedon) and Cawston Organs Ltd.)
  • Vincent Coggin Organ Builder (c.1980–present) – Terrington St Clement, Norfolk
  • Cooper & Co. Organ Builders (2011–present) – Ryde
  • Cousans Organs (1877–present) – formerly Lincoln now Leicester
  • Percy Daniel & Co (c.1919–present) – Clevedon
  • Dean Organ Builders (1970–present) (Bristol, England)
  • William Drake (1974–present) – Buckfastleigh, Devon
  • Duplex Pipe Organ and Blower Company (2001–present) – Farnham, Surrey
  • Forth Pipe Organs Limited (2002–present) – Rosyth, Fife
  • Lance Foy Organs (?-present) – Truro, Cornwall
  • Martin Goetze and Dominic Gwynn Ltd (1980–present) – formerly Northampton, now Welbeck, Nottinghamshire
  • Henry Groves & Son Ltd (1957–present) – Nottingham
  • Norman Hall & Sons (c.1969–present) – Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
  • Harrison and Harrison Ltd (1861–present) – Durham, County Durham
  • Holmes and Swift Organ Builders (c.1979–present) – Fakenham, Norfolk
  • Charles James Organs (2004–present) – Ashwell, Rutland
  • Jardine Organ Builders, (1846-present) – Stretford, Manchester
  • Jennings Organs (1989–present) – Cranham Chase, Dorset
  • E. J. Johnson & Son (Cambridge) Ltd. (c.1955–present) – Snetterton, Norfolk
  • Peter Jones Organ Builder (1979–present) – St John's, Isle of Man
  • Lammermuir Pipe Organs (1983–present) – Oldhamstocks, East Lothian
  • Jonathan Lane & Associates Ltd. (2006–present) – Epsom, Surrey
  • Michael Macdonald Organ Builder (1975–present) – Simshill, Glasgow
  • Midland Organ, Hele & Co. Ltd (1860–present) – Burton Lazars, Leicestershire
  • T. R. Moore Ltd (2017–present) – Nottingham
  • Nicholson & Co (Worcester) Ltd (1841–present) – Malvern, Worcestershire
  • Gary Owens Organ Builders (2001–present) – Pontypool
  • Pennine Organ Services (?-present) – Barnsley, South Yorkshire.
  • Pipe Organ Preservation Co. (1999–present) – Belfast
  • Pipe Organ Services Ltd. (c.1985–present)- formerly Salisbury, and since 1996 Saxby, Melton Mowbray.
  • Positive Organ Company Ltd (2020–present) – Brackley, Northamptonshire
  • Principal Pipe Organs (1983–present) – York, North Yorkshire
  • D. Roberts Organ Builders Ltd (2003–present) – Seaham Harbour, Durham
  • Sheppard & Cross Pipe Organ Services Ltd (2017–present) – Uckfield, Sussex
  • B. C. Shepherd & Sons Organ Builders (1927–present) – Edgware
  • David Shuker | At the Sign of the Pipe (2009–present) – Birling, Kent
  • George Sixsmith & Son Ltd. (1955–present) – Mossley, Greater Manchester
  • Soundcraft Pipe Organ Company (2016–present) – Northampton, Northamptonshire
  • Peter Spencer Ltd (1997–present) – Bubbenhall, Warwickshire
  • J. M. Spink (c.1970–present) – Leeds, West Yorkshire
  • The Village Workshop (c.1994–present) – Finchingfield
  • J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd (1828–present) – Brandon, Suffolk
  • David Wells Organ Builders Ltd (1981–present) – Liverpool
  • Wells-Kennedy Partnership (1966–present) – Lisburn
  • Henry Willis & Sons Ltd; (1845–present) – variously, London, Petersfield and Liverpool
  • Wood Pipe Organ Builders (1966–present) – Huddersfield

Defunct

United States

See Organ Historical Society's Pipe Organ Database for nearly complete list, current and historical.

References

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