Brindley & Foster

Brindley & Foster was a pipe organ builder based in Sheffield who flourished between 1854 and 1939.

He built solid instruments with powerful choruses using Vogler’s Simplification system.

Pipes placed in chromatic order on the soundboards allowed for a simple and reliable key action and permitted similar stops to share the same bass, keeping both space and cost to a minimum.

After the partnership with Foster they began to manufacture more complex pneumatic mechanisms for stop combinations; he also concentrated on the production of orchestral effects.

The business of Brindley and Foster was bought by Henry Willis & Sons in 1939.