kg industry organ building founded 1817 1 headquarters steinach am brenner tirol austria products pipe organs website www.orgelbau pirchner.com orgelbau pirchner is an austrian manufacturer of pipe organs located in steinach am brenner tirol . contents 1 history 2 today 3 works selection 4 references 5 links history edit the company was founded in 1817 by franz reinisch in gries am brenner 2 but moved to steinach as early as 1825 . in 1935 johann pirchner sr. took over the company but had to stop production during world war ii . between 1945 and 1973 the workshop built over 120 pipe organs . in 1973 his son johann pirchner jr. continued the pirchner tradition focusing on the construction of pipe organs with slider chests and tracker action . after building a new workshop in 1997 johann pirchner jr. handed the company to his son martin pirchner who took the meisterpr fung in organ building in 1996 . 1 today edit orgelbau pirchner builds instruments for churches concert halls universities and schools . the company s primary focus is on designing and building slider chest organs with tracker action . the scales of the pipes and their voicing are a modern interpretation of the principles of andreas and gottfried silbermann . works selection edit p pedal keyboard year city church picture manuals stops 1978 kaltern parish church iii p 31 1980 brixen brixen cathedral iii p 47 1985 perchtoldsdorf st. augustin iii p 40 1989 seitenstetten seitenstetten abbey ii p 29 1991 salzburg salzburg cathedral ii p 3 ii p 14 14 1995 bolzano franciscan monastery bolzano iii p 44 1999 hall in tirol st. nikolaus iii p 50 2000 innsbruck innsbruck cathedral iii p. 4 57 2002 b heimkirchen parish church iii p 5 31 2002 wien universit t f r musik und darstellende kunst ii p 15 2004 polling weilheim schongau polling abbey iii p 42 2008 reichenthal parish church ii p 25 2009 lienz franciscan monastery lienz iii p 38 2010 st. ulrich in gr den parish church ii p 31 2011 traunstein st. oswald i p 6 9 2013 vorau vorau monastery ii p 34 references edit a b english http orgelbau pirchner.com en history.php history orgelbau pirchner german http orgeln.musikland tirol.at ob reinisch joseph.html german http www.dommusik salzburg.at dommusik 2010 page.asp id 16619 german reinhard jaud 275 jahre orgelgeschichte zu st. jakob in innsbruck . in domorgel st. jakob innsbruck festschrift zur orgelweihe innsbruck 2000 s. 26ff . german gottfried allmer gro e orgeln in sterreich ein berblick . in das orgelforum . nr . 13 2010 s. 88 . german http www.erzbistum muenchen.de page035062.aspx links edit english website orgelbau pirchner german documentary about orgelbau pirchner retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title orgelbau pirchner & oldid 719334557 categories pipe organ building companiesaustrian musical instrument makerscompanies established in 1817musical instrument manufacturing companies of austriaorgan buildershidden categories articles with german language external links navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 9 may 2016 at 02 02 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view