List of pipe organ builders
This is a list of notable pipe organ builders.
Australia
- William Anderson
- Australian Pipe Organs Pty Ltd
- Robert Cecil Clifton
- William Davidson
- J. E. Dodd & Sons Gunstar Organ Works
- Fincham & Hobday
- Geo. Fincham & Son
- Alfred Fuller
- Hargraves Pipe Organs Pty Ltd
- William Hill & Son & Norman & Beard Ltd
- Peter D. G. Jewkes Pty Ltd
- Johnson & Kinloch
- Samuel Joscelyne
- Carl Krüger
- Ernst Ladegast
- F. J. Larner & Co.
- Laurie Pipe Organs
- C. W. Leggo
- Daniel Heinrich Lemke
- Samuel Marshall
- Joseph Massey
- James Moyle
- Pierce Pipe Organs
- Pipe Organs Victoria Pty. Ltd.
- Pitchford & Garside
- Roger Pogson
- Charles Richardson
- William Leopold Roberts, built "Memorial Organ" for St Andrew's Church, Brighton
- Ronald Sharp
- Knud Smenge
- Frederick Taylor
- Wakeley Pipe Organs Pty Ltd
Austria
- Matthäus Abbrederis
- Orgelbau Pieringer
- Rieger Orgelbau
Belgium
- Georges Cloetens
- Forceville – Antwerp
- Johannes Thomas Forceville
- Matthijs Langhedul
- Mortier – Antwerp
- Jan Lapon – Diksmuide
Canada
- Casavant Frères – Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec
- Legge Organ Co. Ltd – Toronto, Ontario
- Gabriel Kney – London, Ontario
- – Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec
- Louis Mitchell – Quebec
- Orgues Létourneau – Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec
- Laliberté-Payment – Repentigny, Québec
- Karl Wilhelm – Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Québec
- Hellmuth Wolff, Wolff & Associés – Laval, Québec
- R. A. Denton & Son – Hamilton, Ontario
- Juget-Sinclair – Montréal, Québec
Cuba
- Hermanos Cuayo
Czech Republic
- Rieger-Kloss
Czechoslovakia
- Rieger-Kloss
Denmark
- Poul-Gerhard Andersen
- Frobenius Orgelbyggeri
- Marcussen & Søn
France
- Alexandre
- Charles S. Barker
- Quentin Blumenroeder
- Daublaine & Callinet
- Aristide Cavaillé-Coll
- Joseph Merklin
- Charles Mutin
- Puget Family
- Dom Bédos de Celles
- François-Henri Clicquot
- Robert Clicquot
- Charles Lefebvre
- Clément Lefebvre
- Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Lefebvre
- Louis-Charles Lefebvre
- Koenig
- Claude Parisot
- Georges Danion
- Victor Gonzalez
- Jean-Loup and Robert Boisseau
- Bertrand Cattiaux
- Pascal Quoirin
Germany
- Jürgen Ahrend – Leer, Lower Saxony
- Michael Becker Orgelbau
- Rudolf von Beckerath
- Peter Breisiger
- Hayl family of organ builders, 16th and 17th century family of pipe organ builders
- Zacharias Hildebrandt
- Albertus Antonius Hinsz
- Hofbauer – Göttingen
- Elias Hößler
- Stephan Kaschendorf
- Emanuel Kemper, Lübeck
- Orgelbau Klais – Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia
- Friedrich Krebs
- Friedrich Ladegast – Weissenfels
- Orgelbau Mebold, Siegen
- Johann Josua Mosengel
- Arp Schnitger
- Schuke family, three generations, two workshops, one in Potsdam, named Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau in 1990 and located from 2004 in Werder, the other in Berlin, Karl Schuke Berliner Orgelbauwerkstatt
- Gottfried Silbermann
- Christian Gottlob Steinmüller
- Georg Christoph Stertzing
- Tobias Heinrich Gottfried Trost
- Heinrich Traxdorf
- Orgelbau Vleugels – Hardheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg
- Walcker Orgelbau – Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg
- M. Welte & Sons – Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg
- Johann Friedrich Wender – Mühlhausen
- Paul Voelkner, Eastern Pomerania
- Glatter-Götz Orgelbau – Pfullendorf Germany
- Wolkenstayn Orgelbau – Kötz, Germany
Hungary
- Aquincum Organbuilder Company
- Pécs Organ Manufactory
Ireland
- Trevor Crowe
- Kenneth Jones and Associates – Kilcoole, County Wicklow
- Neiland & Creane Organ Builders – Wexford
Italy
- Agati
- Antegnati – Brescia
- Bossi – Italian firm of organ builders originally from Mendrisio
- CHICHI Organi – Firenze
- Consoli Pipe Organs, Locorotondo, Bari, Apulia
- Lorenzo Musante − Genoa
- Mascioni – Cuvio
- Organi Pinchi, Trevi, Umbria
- Giovanni Pradella – Sondrio
- Fratelli Ruffatti – Padua
- Tamburini − Crema, Lombardy
The Netherlands
- Andries van Bolder, Arnhem
- Johann Heinrich Hartmann Bätz, Utrecht
- , Hillegom
- Duyschot, Holland
- Flentrop, Zaandam
- Hendrik Niehoff
- J. L. van den Heuvel Orgelbouw, Dordrecht
- Rodensteen family, 15th century Dutch family of organ builders
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- Reil, Heerde
- , Leeuwarden
- , Gendt
- , Utrecht
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New Zealand
- South Island Organ Company
Poland
- Cepka Marek
- Drozdowicz Jan
- Jakubowski Mirosław
- Kamińscy
- Mollin Zdzisław
- Nawrot Marian
- Olejnik Adam
- Truszczyński Włodzimierz
- Zych – Zakłady Organowe
Portugal
- António Xavier Machado e Cerveira
Slovenia
- Skrabl –
- Orglarstvo Mocnik –
South Africa
- R Muller – Potchestroom
- van Schalkwyk Organ Builders – Cape Town & Surrounding areas
- SAOB – Pretoria
- Cooper Gill & Tomkins – Cape Town
- Pekelharing Organ Building – Port Elizabeth
- Protea Orrelbouers – Brandfort
- Jan Zielman Orrelbouers – Pretoria
- Pyporrels – Pretoria
- AA Tod Organ Builders Cc
Spain
- Blancafort, OM.
- Gerhard Grenzing
- Lope Alberdi Ricalde
- Federico Acitores, Acitores Organería y Arte S.L.
- Jordi Bosch
- Rafael Puignau
Sweden
- Sven and Erik Nordström
- Walter Thür Organbuilders
Switzerland
- Friedrich Haas
- Orgelbau Thomas Wälti – Gümligen
- Orgelbau Kuhn AG – Männedorf
- Metzler Orgelbau – Dietikon
- Mathis Orgelbau – Näfels
- Orgelbau Goll – Luzern
- Späth Orgelbau – Rüti, Zürich
- Orgelbau Graf – Oberkirch
- Orgelbau Roman Steiner – Fehren
- Orgelbau Felsberg – Felsberg
- Manufacture d'Orgues Füglister – Grimisuat
- Erni Orgelbau – Stans
- Peter Meier Orgelbau – Rheinfelden
- Lifart Orgelbau AG – Emmen
- Flayer Manufacture d'Orgues – Ursy
- Arno Caluori Orgelbau – Seewis
- Armin Hauser Orgelbau – Kleindöttingen
- Orgelbau Stemmer – Zumikon
- Manufacture d'orgues St. Martin S.A. Chézard-Saint-Martin
Turkey
- Istanbul Pipe Organ Team – Istanbul
United Kingdom
Current (post-2016)
- Balfour-Rowley Ltd. Organ Builders – 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 – London and Ipswich
- W & A Boggis – Roydon, South Norfolk
- F. Booth & Son Ltd. – Stanningley, West Yorkshire
- Bower & Company – Wroxham, Norfolk
- F. H. Browne & Sons – Canterbury, Kent.
- * From 1 October 2020 the company trades under the name of Mander Organs.
- A. J. Carter Organ Builder Ltd. – Stanley, West Yorkshire
- Clevedon Organ group Ltd & Clevedon Pipe Organ Services, incorporating Daniel & Co Ltd
- Vincent Coggin Organ Builder – Terrington St Clement, Norfolk
- Cooper & Co. Organ Builders – Ryde
- Cousans Organs – formerly Lincoln now Leicester
- Percy Daniel & Co – Clevedon
- Dean Organ Builders
- William Drake – Buckfastleigh, Devon
- Duplex Pipe Organ and Blower Company – Farnham, Surrey
- Forth Pipe Organs Limited – Rosyth, Fife
- Lance Foy Organs – Truro, Cornwall
- Martin Goetze and Dominic Gwynn Ltd – formerly Northampton, now Welbeck, Nottinghamshire
- Henry Groves & Son Ltd – Nottingham
- Norman Hall & Sons – Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Harrison and Harrison Ltd – Durham, County Durham
- Holmes and Swift Organ Builders – Fakenham, Norfolk
- Charles James Organs – Ashwell, Rutland
- Jardine Organ Builders, – Stretford, Manchester
- Jennings Organs – Cranham Chase, Dorset
- E. J. Johnson & Son Ltd. – Snetterton, Norfolk
- Peter Jones Organ Builder – St John's, Isle of Man
- Lammermuir Pipe Organs – Oldhamstocks, East Lothian
- Jonathan Lane & Associates Ltd. – Epsom, Surrey
- Michael Macdonald Organ Builder – Simshill, Glasgow
- Midland Organ, Hele & Co. Ltd – Burton Lazars, Leicestershire
- T. R. Moore Ltd – Nottingham
- Nicholson & Co Ltd – Malvern, Worcestershire
- Gary Owens Organ Builders – Pontypool
- Pennine Organ Services – Barnsley, South Yorkshire.
- Pipe Organ Preservation Co. – Belfast
- Pipe Organ Services Ltd. - formerly Salisbury, and since 1996 Saxby, Melton Mowbray.
- Positive Organ Company Ltd – Brackley, Northamptonshire
- Principal Pipe Organs – York, North Yorkshire
- D. Roberts Organ Builders Ltd – Seaham Harbour, Durham
- Sheppard & Cross Pipe Organ Services Ltd – Uckfield, Sussex
- B. C. Shepherd & Sons Organ Builders – Edgware
- David Shuker | At the Sign of the Pipe – Birling, Kent
- George Sixsmith & Son Ltd. – Mossley, Greater Manchester
- Soundcraft Pipe Organ Company – Northampton, Northamptonshire
- Peter Spencer Ltd – Bubbenhall, Warwickshire
- J. M. Spink – Leeds, West Yorkshire
- The Village Workshop – Finchingfield
- J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd – Brandon, Suffolk
- David Wells Organ Builders Ltd – Liverpool
- Wells-Kennedy Partnership – Lisburn
- Henry Willis & Sons Ltd; – variously, London, Petersfield and Liverpool
- Wood Pipe Organ Builders – Huddersfield
Defunct
- Abbott and Smith – Leeds
- Arnold Moseley Wolverhampton. Mainly Congregational Chapels in the area.
- Cedric Arnold - Chelmsford then Thaxted
- Cedric Arnold, Williamson & Hyatt - Thaxted
- Theodore Charles Bates and Sons – Ludgate Hill, London
- G. Bedwell & Son – Cambridge
- Henry Bevington – London
- James Jepson Binns – Leeds, Yorkshire
- Bishop & Starr - London
- Blackett & Howden
- Richard Bridge – London
- Brindley & Foster – Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Cambridge Organ Company
- Kenneth Canter
- Messrs Casey & Cairney – Glasgow
- Casson's Patent Organ Co Ltd., thereafter trading as Mitchell and Thynne.- Denbigh and London.
- Nigel Church Organs Ltd. – Stamfordham, Northumberland
- A. J. Claypole – located on Narrow St. Peterborough
- James Cole – Manchester
- Peter Collins – Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire
- John Compton
- Conacher and Co. – Huddersfield
- David Coram – Fordingbridge, Hampshire
- Martin Cross Organ Builder – Stifford, near Grays, Essex
- Thomas Dallam and his sons, Robert, Ralph and George - London.
- Degens & Rippin Ltd – London
- Driver & Haigh – Bradford
- East Midlands Organ Company
- Thomas Elliott – London
- Elliott and Hill – London
- Forster and Andrews – variously Hull, London, York
- August Gern – London
- S. E. Gilks – Peterborough
- Gray & Davison – London
- Grant, Degens & Rippin – London
- Grant, Degens & Bradbeer – London, then Northampton
- J Halmshaw & Sons – Dewsbury, Yorkshire, Birmingham, Warwickshire. Merged with Ebrall in 1913, when Joseph William Halmshaw was listed as Manager. He was listed as Retired Organ Builder in the 1939 registration.
- Renatus Harris
- William Hedgeland – Paddington, London
- Hele & Co – Truro, then Plymouth
- William Hill & Sons Ltd – London
- William Hill & Son & Norman & Beard Ltd. – London
- Robert Hope-Jones
- A. Hunter & Son – Clapham
- R. Huntingford – location unknown
- Kenneth James and Sons Ltd – location unknown.
- T. S. Jones – London
- Ernest Lifford & Co. – Yeovil
- Henry Cephas Lincoln – London
- John Lincoln – London
- Lewis & Co – Brixton, London Borough of Lambeth
- Charles Lloyd – Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
- C. F. Lloyd – Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
- Longstaff & Jones – Telford, West Midlands.
- John Loosemore – Devon
- W.C. Mack – Great Yarmouth.
- Mander Organs Ltd – London.
- *In July 2020 the company went into liquidation. The company name and intellectual property were acquired by F. H. Browne and Sons Ltd with that firm trading as Mander Organs from 1 October 2020.
- J. E. Minns – Taunton. Company purchased by George Osmond.
- Norman and Beard Ltd – London
- Geo. Osmond & Co. – Taunton. Succeeded J. E. Minns and traded under that name until 1908.
- Albert E. Pease – Stoke Newington, London
- The Positive Organ Company Ltd. – London.
- Roger Pulham – Woodbridge, Suffolk.
- Rushworth and Dreaper – Liverpool, Merseyside
- Bernard Schmidt
- George Sherborne – Bath
- John Snetzler – London
- A.E. & F. A. Still – location?
- Thomas Swarbrick – London then Warwick
- William Sweetland – Bath, Somerset; thereafter Sweetland Organ Building Co. Ltd.
- Kenneth Tickell & Company – Wellingborough.
- Trevor Tipple – Worcester.
- H. S. Vincent & Co. – Sunderland
- W. G. Vowles – Bristol
- Andrew Watt & Son – Glasgow
- Peter Wells Organ Builders – Cranbrook, Kent
- Williamson & Hyatt - Trunch
- Samuel Wort – 1/. Holloway, 2/. Camden Town, London.
- E. Wragg & Son – Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
- Alexander Young & Sons – Manchester