New Zealand Organ Manufactory Workshop
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The New Zealand Organ Manufactory is named after the Christchurch workshop of New Zealand's leading nineteenth-century organ
builder, Edgar Henry Jenkins (1836-1924). Jenkins trained under William Hill & Sons in London, and Cavaillé-Coll & Cie in Paris, in the
Edgar Henry Jenkins (1836-1924). New Zealand's foremost nineteenth-century organ builder. He operated a workshop in Christchurch in the 1880s which he named the New Zealand Organ Manufactory. Cyclopaedia of New Zealand (1903).
The modern establishment of the Manufactory was greatly assisted early on by the acquisition of tunings and workshop equipment from Thomas Rohlfs of Wellington, formerly with the South Island Organ Company, more recently with Wolff & Associates of Quebec, and now Managing Director of QLF Pipe Organ Components of Virginia. Dr Newton's former workshop was located in Harbour Street, in the heart of Oamaru's famous
Historic The Manufactory is fully equipped in all departments of organ building, including the manufacture of metal pipes. The mobile workshop is likewise equipped to handle a wide range of repairs. Our tuning rounds extend throughout the country, and pipe and reed organs are repaired and overhauled in the workshop and on site. One of our specialties is the restoration of historic instruments to museum standards, such work being undertaken for museums in both Islands. |
1850s and '60s, and following service in the Crimean War was active in Spain. He emigrated to
New Zealand in 1869 and continued organ building through to the 1920s.
Quarter, and after a temporary sojourn in the historic 1860s Meek's Mill in Meek Street, the Workshop and Museum are now to be found in the historic 1910 Oamaru Railway Station, designed by George Troup, architect of the 1906 Dunedin Railway Station. Our Museum display area is in the original dining room.