Links
Technical - Theatre Organ & Other Organ
- American Institute of Organbuilders - They have a good online technical database. Professional association of organbuilders.
- A. PHILIP LYONS, JR. MEMORIAL THEATRE ORGAN KNOWLEDGE BASE - Technical and other theatre organ articles
- Associated Pipe Organ Builders of America - "The Highest Standards of Integrity and Quality in Pipe Organ Building"
- Tech articles about pipe organs and electronic instruments - "This website outlines research carried out by Dr Colin Pykett in the field of pipe and electronic organs, and offers on-line advice."
- Mechanical Music Digest (MMD) Technical Library - Includes technical articles applicable to theatre pipe organs.
- Incorporated Society of Organ Builders
- International Society of Organbuilders
- The British Institute of Organ Studies
- Institute of British Organ Building
- The Pipe Organ Education Project by Marya J. Fancey
- Institute for Pipe Organ Research and Education - "IPORE is a non-profit corporation organized for educational, cultural and scientific purposes relating to the pipe organ, its construction, history, literature, and music."
- About Pipes
- Vincent Rioux's - "research focuses on "voicing techniques" of flue organ pipes. This art deals with fine adjustments of the timbre of organ pipes. It thus involves high expertise on sound quality. Our goal is to study several technical points which are still not completely elucitated whithin the organ-building community."
- Flue Pipe Acoustics - The Physics behind the Sound of Organ Pipes, Whistles and Flutes by Richard J. Weisenberge
- HASKELL PIPES - A PRACTICAL SURVEY
- Organ Reed Pipe Tongue Dimensions
- PIPEMAKING David Smit Metal Pipes — Part I: Metallurgy l
- Organ Pipe Metallurgy a slide show Martha Dibblee
- Yahoo Groups - Pipe Organ Voicers -"This venue is dedicated to pipe organ voicers, finishers, and techs world wide. It is our hope that we will be able to communicate our thoughts, experiences, and questions openly."
- Some Thoughts on Tibia Clausas by Al Sefl ©reserved 2002
- Encyclopedia of Organ Stops - "The world's most complete encyclopedia of organ stops!"
- Osiris Organ Stoplist Archive—Web Page at wu-wien.ac.at
- Database of theatre organ stop lists
- Wurlitzer Ranks List Compiled by Al Sefl
- Estey Pipe Organ Virtual Museum
- Homage to Robert Hope-Jones The Creator of the Theatre Organ
- Anatomy Of A
Wurlitzer Theatre Pipe Organ Photos of the restoration of a
Wurlitzer Style 150, 2-Manual 5-Rank Theatre Organ.
- Organ History Good explanations of classical pipe organs. Many concepts apply to theatre organs as well.
- Research carried out by
Dr Colin Pykett in the field of pipe and electronic organs, and
offers on-line advice
- Arndt Organ Supply Company - AOSC is a company which specializes in quality-built products for church and theater pipe organs.
- Organ Supply Industries - Manufacturer and distributor of pipe organ components.
- A.R. Schopp's Sons, Inc.- "is the largest supplier of organ pipes in the United States today. The company has been in business for a hundred and three years, and four generations of the Schopp family have been involved in its operation."
- Broome & Co. - "The mission of the company is to provide high quality restoration, voicing, and pipe repair services to the pipe organ community. Broome & Co. restores reeds for some of the finest restorers in the country."
- Aug. Laukhuff GmbH & Co. - Orgelteile & Orgelbau "We supply organbuilding firms worldwide. Many parts are custom made, not only bellows, consoles, pipes etc., but also complete instruments. As a speciality we manufacture keyboards for all keyboard instruments."
- Weiblen-Spezialwerkzeuge - German supplier of specialized tools for organbuilders. Leather Supply House is the United States representative for Weiblen (see next link below)
- The Leather Supply House - Leather Supplies and Musical Instrument Leather. "Provides the highest quality hand selected leathers used in the building and restoration of fine pipe organs, mechanical musical machines, orchestrions, band organs, and clocks."
- Columbia Organ Leathers - "Provides only high quality, Chrome (Cr2O3) Tanned leathers for use in the construction and restoration of Pipe Organs and other musical instruments. We do not provide vegetable or alum tanned leathers, as these have been shown to deteriorate much more quickly than full chrome tanned skins."
- Klann Organ Supply Co. -
- Adesso Organ Supply
- Musical Instrument Technicians Association - organ parts for both electronic and pipe organs
- The Spencer Turbine Co.
- Wicks Organ Company
- Organ Builders Directory
- The Piano World
- Allen Miller & Associates Z-tronics combination action and relay systems.
- Uniflex Relay Systems
- Artisan Instrument, Inc.
- OPUS-TWO Instrument Control System
- Musicon USA - Site for the American Distributor in Martha, OK
- Peterson Electro-Musical Products, Inc.
- Solid State Organ Systems
- Syndyne Corporation - Manufacturer of products for Pipe Organs and Electronic Organs
- HESCO Incorporated theatre organ and classical stop engraving services
- Restoration Documentation - An illustrated lecture outlining the techniques and philosophy of documentation and assessment.
- Smithsonian Center for Materials Research & Education - CARING FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
- Committee of
Musical Instrument Museums and Collections - CIMCIM aims to
promote high professional standards in the use and conservation of
musical instruments in museums and collections.
- Google Directory of Pipe Organ Builders
- Theatre Pipe Organ Restoration - Carlton Smith and Clark Wilson
- Eastern Organ Pipes, Inc. - A complete pipe making and repair facility in Hagerstown, Maryland.
- SouthEastern Felt & Supply 2870 Armentrout Drive P.O. Box 1368 Concord, NC 28026-1368 1-800-438-2252 Fax: 704-782-7410
- McMasters-Carr catalog
- Pipe Organ Percussions - Don Shaw has a library of Percussions, Traps and Effects that has grown to include over 50 different actions and instruments.
- Lark In The Morning - For a really wild toy counter !!! A musician's service that specializes in hard to find musical instruments, unique selection of folk, ethnic, eclectic and unusual musical instruments.
- Mass Rowe Chimes - chimes with electric solenoid strikers
- Walker Digital Unit Orchestra
- Digital Toy Counter
- Theatre Organ Enhancements
- www.ragtimewest.com - "Player piano and nickelodeons, carousel organs, bandorgans, calliopes, preassembled kits or ready to play. Player piano and nickelodeon conversion kits for any piano. Player piano rolls for orchestrions."
- MIDI Gadgets Boutique
- jOrgan
- Miditzer - "This program puts a virtual WurliTzer Style 216 2/10 Theatre Pipe Organ on your Windows desktop."
- Virtual Theatre Organ -
- theatre-sf · Theatre Organ Soundfonts "A group for anyone interested in building or using soundfont recreations of theatre organs."
- Bruce Miles - Cinama Organ SoundFont
- Owen Jones' converted Conn 651 theatre organ