Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One whose occupation is the construction of pipe-organs.
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Hans Henny Jahnn 17 December 1894, Stellingen – 29 November 1959, Hamburg was a German playwright, novelist and organ-builder
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And unless Hans Henny Jahnn wrote a play about a novel organ-builder then I think you can skim him :
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After his apprenticeship expired he lived in Cheltenham for three years, where he assisted an organ-builder named Evans, who afterwards became known as a manufacturer of free reed instruments.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments George Laing Miller
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He was the son of Dominique Cavaillé-Coll, who was well known as an organ-builder in Languedoc, and grandson of Jean
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments George Laing Miller
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Co., said on his last return from England that Compton was at that time doing the most artistic work of any organ-builder in that country.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments George Laing Miller
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About the year 1847 Henry Willis started in business for himself as an organ-builder, and his first great success was in rebuilding the organ in Gloucester Cathedral.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments George Laing Miller
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Hilborne Roosevelt, the great American organ-builder, was at that time in Europe, and in response to Barker's earnest entreaty, came to Dublin _incognito_, so as not to detract from
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments George Laing Miller
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On the other hand, if an organ-builder first provides a number stops that furnish sufficient variety of tonal quality and volume that is ample for the building in which the instrument is situated, and then arranges for the transference of a number of the stops to other manuals than their own, he will be adding to the tonal resources of the instrument in a way that is worthy of commendation.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments George Laing Miller
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About the year 1895 C.rlton C. Michell, an English organ-builder, who had been associated with Thynne and with Hope-Jones, and who had as the latter's representative set up new-type organs in Baltimore, Md., and
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments George Laing Miller
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The organ-builder would be notified, and, on coming next day, _would not find anything the matter_, the batteries having recovered themselves in the interim.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments George Laing Miller
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