Category talk:Pipe organ builders

Observation and Suggestion
Fairground Organs, and the like, are among the categories for the Portal, but few, if any, past and present manufacturers and rebuilders of those mainly pipe instruments are listed. These include [in no particular order] Gavioli, Marenghi, Weber, Pierre Eich, Fasano, Hooghuys, van Eyk, Gasparini, Pell, Trueman, Dean, Oehrlein, Tangley, Verbeeck, Welte, van den Broek, Limonaire, Mortier, the DeCap companies, Gaudin, Carl Frei, the various Bruder firms, Ruth, van Steenput, Wellershaus, Voigt, Bursens, Perlee, Bacigalupo, Page & Howard, Chiappa, Pilmer, Wurlitzer, Artisan, Aeolian, North Tonawanda, etc.

Nor are there any names of those who compose[d] original music for mechanical organs; such names as Carl Frei Sr. [A man who composed over 400 pieces of serious music.], Gustav Bruder, Arthur Prinsen, Anton Schollaert, Gavioli, Cor Coenen, Romke de Waard, Marcel van Boxtel, and so on.

Apologies for the lists, but they are included to highlight the fact that mechanical organs are by no means a niche category in comparison to manually operated instruments. The significant categories of Dance Organ, Orchestrion and Chamber Organ might also warrant inclusion. Some of these are quite large organs, with over 1,000 playing pipes. Can these and others be incorporated to the category?

Another Question
How should A.R.Schopps Sons (the pipe maker) be handled? Should they be lumped in like OSI, or should we create a category for supply houses? —Preceding unsigned comment added by FozzyMaple (talk • contribs) 18:38, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Question
How do we want to handle those who build hybrid insturments - those insturments that have stops with both pipe and electronic sources? We have categories for both pipe and electronic organs? Do they belong in one or both categories, or is another category appropriate? JesseG 01:30, 8 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Why not just combine this category and Category:Electronic organ builders to create a Category:Organ builders? The electronic organ builders category has only four articles in it, and this combination would solve the question above. &mdash;Sesquialtera II (talk) 01:51, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Much easier to just make Category:Pipe organ builders and Category:Electronic organ builders subcategories of Category:Organ builders. Then anything that doesn't go in the subcategories goes in Category:Organ builders. Madder 02:10, 29 September 2006 (UTC)