Oberlin Dedicates New C.B. Fisk Organ With Live Broadcasts of Concerts on WCLV 104.9 Fm Musicians Dedicate Concert Performance to Victims of September 11 Terrorist Attacks By Marci Janas '91
	Back to the main story		About C. B. Fisk, Inc. The late Charles Brenton Fisk founded C.B. Fisk, Inc., in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1961. A man of many talents and bold ideas, he was the first modern American organbuilder to return to the mechanical key and stop action of historical European and early American instruments. The firm constructed the largest four-manual mechanical action instruments built in America, first at Harvard University in 1967, then again at House of Hope Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1979. Besides the Fisk Opus 116 at Oberlin, the firm has built several instruments based on historical organs. An organ at Wellesley College is patterned after North German organs of the early 17th century; the Fisk organ at the University of Michigan was built in the manner of the Saxon builder, Gottfried Silbermann; and a three-manual instrument at Rice University is, like Oberlin’s, modeled on the work of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll. The four-manual dual-temperament instrument at Stanford University combined several different aspects of historical organ styles. Symphonic organs at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, the Minato Mirai Hall in Yokohama, and Seattle’s Benaroya Hall are designed for maximum impact with orchestra as well as for solo repertoire. Fisk will soon build an organ at the Cathedral in Lausanne, Switzerland, the first American organ in a European cathedral. Fisk’s instruments have redefined organbuilding, linking modern technology and ideas with the rich heritage of the King of Instruments. The dedicated organbuilders who make up C.B. Fisk continue Charles Fisk's work, combining the science of physics and the art of music to produce instruments that bridge centuries past with those to come.
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