CB Fisk

CB Fisk, Inc is an American organ building company based in Gloucester , Massachusetts . The company was founded in 1961 by the organ builder Charles B. Fisk . Fisk based his craft on Neo-Baroque and built the largest US organs with fully mechanical action . The company accepted orders in the USA, China, Japan, South Korea and Switzerland. In the 1990s, it was the first American organ building company to receive an order from Europe: Opus 120 in the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Lausanne (Switzerland). The most famous organs include those in the Stanford Memorial Church in California (Opus 85) and in the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas (Opus 100).

List of works (selection)

year	opus	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1964	44	Boston / Massachusetts	King's Chapel		III / P	38	first three-manual American organ of the 20th century with mechanical action
1971	55	Boston / Massachusetts	Old West Church (Massachusetts)		III / P	46
1974	66	Boston / Massachusetts	New England Conservatory of Music		I.	9	split registers
1974	66a	New Haven / Connecticut	Yale University		I.	9	split registers
1976	68	Burlington	University of Vermont		III / P	28
1981	72	Massachusetts	Wellesley College		III / P	28	with short octave and subsemitonies
1977	76	Durham, North Carolina	Duke University		II / P	11
1900	77	Durham, North Carolina	Duke University		III / P	45
1985	84	South Hadley, Massachusetts	Mount Holyoke College		II / P	23
1984	85	Stanford (California)	Stanford Memorial Church / Stanford University		III / P	45
1985	87	Ann Arbor	University of Michigan		II / P	27
1987	91	Bloomington	Indiana University		III / P	39
1990	95	new York	University at Buffalo		III / P	44
1992	100	Dallas / Texas	Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center		IV / P	66
1993	101	Dallas / Texas	Southern Methodist University		III / P	42
1994	106	Kansas	Pittsburg State University		III / P	34
1997	109	Houston, Texas	Rice University		III / P	58
1999	111	Norman (Oklahoma)	University of Oklahoma		III / P	28
2001	116	Oberlin (Ohio)	Oberlin College		III / P	56
1999	118	Houston, Texas	Rice University		II / P	5	with coupling manual
2003/2013	120	Lausanne (Switzerland)	Notre Dame Cathedral		V / P	95	2013 Extension by a remote control unit from Kuhn
2004	121	Greenville, South Carolina	Furman University		III / P	41
2008	130	Costa Mesa / California	Orange County Performing Arts Center		III / P	44
2010	135	Bloomington	Indiana University		III / P	60
2012	142	Bloomington	Indiana University		II / P	5	with coupling manual

literature

• Barbara Owen: Fisk, Charles B (renton) . In: Douglas E. Bush, Richard Kassel (Eds.): The Organ: An Encyclopedia . Routledge, New York 2006, ISBN 0-415-94174-1 , pp. 199-201.

Web links

Commons : CB Fisk organs  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• CB Fisk website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Uwe Hielscher : Famous organs of the USA . Dohr, Cologne-Rheinkassel 2002, ISBN 3-925366-91-1 , p. 63.