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The Mexican Organ
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About Bribiesca
The Mexican Organ
Philosophy & Workshop
Bribiesca's Pipe organs
Rebuilding
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Philosophy and Workshop

Our workshop is a place surrounded by the smell of wood being carved, the colours being painted and the variety of sweet sounds being magically created. We regard ourselves as artisans and organ builders, and we work in an enviroment of art, skill and creation. Hence, our workshop is a place of unique design and constant development, more by far than merely a simple organ factory. The philosophy and vision lying behind our work and our workshop is to incorporate technological advance into the building of the traditional-style organ without loss of beauty, uniqueness, design and finish.

Apart from the demanding task of rediscovering, dominating and updating the skills involved in building traditional-style organs we also have a special concern for detail and quality. Our organs are handmade, best use being made of the latest in technology, materials and tools, so to give to the finished instrument long life and to the owner the utmost in satisfaction.

Our workshop can build or reproduce for our clients any kind of mechanical organ, but we have at the same time developed our own personal style of organ based on those from Mexico and still with the polycromatic pipes, the faces painted onto gold leaf, and the carved bodywork so typical of the true barroque Mexican style.

As far as the restoration of organs is concerned, our workshop has restored many different kinds of organ: mechanical, pneumatic,electrical, old and new.In each case we have respected the original sound and decoration, considering it, as we do, a grave mistake to alter their original qualities and characteristics. When restoring, we take care to retain the same number of pipes and we make sure the length of each pipe is not changed. When dealing with the older organs we melt down the raw metal ourselves so we can obtain alloys similar to those originally used. In the case of missing pieces we find ones which have been disgarded or else we manufacture them ourselves based on information about the original organ builder and the place and time it was made. Eduardo and Esther Bribiesca