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Rodgers Instruments Corporation is an American manufacturer of classical and church organs.Rodgers was incorporated May 1, 1958 in Beaverton, Oregon by founders, Rodgers W. Jenkins and Fred Tinker, employees of Tektronix, Inc., of Portland, Oregon, and members of a Tektronix team developing transistor-based oscillator circuits. [1]
The company was known as Tellers-Kent for a number of years until the name changed back to Tellers Organ Company. The company would eventually become a pioneer in the combination pipe/electronic organ fields and would come to produce the Conn-Tellers Electro-Pipe Combination Organ. The company later became an authorized Rodgers Instruments dealer.
An electric organ, also known as electronic organ, is an electronic keyboard instrument which was derived from the harmonium, pipe organ and theatre organ. Originally designed to imitate their sound, or orchestral sounds, it has since developed into several types of instruments: Hammond-style organs used in pop, rock and jazz;
The organ pairs baseball with the tones of the past and present. And it was first heard over 80 years ago at Wrigley Field on Chicago's north side. On April 26, 1941 Ray Nelson entertained fans ...
The organ is the only Austin-manufactured one remaining in the Southeast. [31] Opus 1215 – Saint Matthew Lutheran Church, Hanover, Pennsylvania. Organ has four manuals, 231 ranks, and is among the world's largest. (1924) [32] [33] Opus 1267 – First United Methodist Church, Elgin, Illinois – Restored by Rogers Instruments Corp. in 2004.
An associate of Virgil Fox, [1] he performed during his career on some of the largest pipe organs in the United States and made numerous compact disc recordings. [2] [3]Between 1966 and 1978 he toured throughout the U.S. and Canada with organist Andy Crow [4] as the Worth/Crow Duo; the duo were managed on the tour by Columbia Artists Management.
In music, the organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means (generally woodwind or electric) for producing tones. The organs have usually two or three, up to five, manuals for playing with the hands and a pedalboard for playing with the feet. With the use of registers, several groups of pipes can be connected to ...
C. B. Fisk was originally named Andover Organ Company and was founded in 1948 by Thomas W. Byers. Fisk partnered with Byers some years later. [3] Like Fisk, Byers was an organ builder that preferred manual organs over electric ones. [4] In 1958, Fisk became the full owner after buying out Byers's ownership interest. [4]