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Brindley & Foster

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Brindley & Foster was a pipe organ builder based in Sheffield who flourished between 1854 and 1939.[1]

Background

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The business was established by Charles Brindley in 1854. He was joined by Albert Healey Foster in 1871 and the company acquired the name Brindley & Foster.

Charles Brindley was born in Baslow, Derbyshire, in the early 1830s. He retired in 1887 and died in 1893.[2]

Brindley was a follower of Edmund Schulze. He built solid instruments with powerful choruses using Vogler’s Simplification system. Pipes placed in chromatic order on the soundboards allowed for a simple and reliable key action and permitted similar stops to share the same bass, keeping both space and cost to a minimum. The Swell organ was often mounted above the Great in the German manner.

After the partnership with Foster they began to manufacture more complex pneumatic mechanisms for stop combinations; he also concentrated on the production of orchestral effects.

The business of Brindley and Foster was bought by Henry Willis & Sons in 1939.

List of new organs

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List of works of restorations and renovations

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References

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  1. ^ Pipes & Actions. Laurence Elvin. 1995
  2. ^ The Star, Guernsey. Tuesday 5 December 1893
  3. ^ "New Organ". Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. Derby. 21 September 1867. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  4. ^ "Opening of a New Organ at Alrewas". Lichfield Mercury. England. 15 September 1882. Retrieved 22 April 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ^ "Bathurst Cathedral". ohta.org.au. Retrieved 24 February 2017.