Walter Thür Organbuilders

The company, established in 1968 by Walter Thür, an Austrian, made around 200 organs, most of them for the Church of Sweden in different parts of the world, including the United States, Singapore, Japan and the Philippines.

[1] Walter Engelbert Thür was born on 23 July 1934 in Austria.

In 1968, he formed his company in an old caramel factory in Storgatan, Torshälla.

[1] Thür died on 11 March 2004, aged 69, in Eskilstuna, Sweden, shortly after completing the organ at the city's Klosters Church.

[1] Thür either built or (where noted) refurbished the following pipe organs.