Gabriel Kney is a Canadian company that builds pipe organs. The organ of Bristol Cathedral, Bristol, England. ...
It was founded in the 1950s by musician and organ builder Gabriel Kney (born in Speyer, Germany, November 21, 1929). Speyer (English formerly Spires) is a city in Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate) with approx. ... November 21 is the 325th day of the year (326th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
The company operates in London, Ontario. Nickname: The Forest City Coordinates: Country Canada Province Ontario County Middlesex County Settled 1826 (as village) Incorporated 1855 (as city) City Mayor Anne Marie DeCicco-Best Governing Body London City Council MPs Sue Barnes (LPC) Joe Fontana (LPC) Irene Mathyssen (NDP) Joe Preston (CPC) MPPs Chris Bentley (OLP) Deb Matthews...
Some of the best examples of the company's designs are the organs of Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral in Kansas City, and the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. Roy Thomson Hall Roy Thomson Hall is a concert hall in Toronto, Canada. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Fountains or Heart of America Location Location in Jackson, Clay, Platte, and Cass Counties in the state of Missouri. ... The University of Saint Thomas (also known as UST or simply St. ... State capitol building in Saint Paul Saint Paul is the capital and second-largest city of the state of Minnesota in the United States of America. ...
He started his apprenticeship in his hometown with Paul Sattel, then spent four years as assistant to Franz Nagel while studying church music at the Bischöfl Institute.
Kney moved to London, Ont, in 1951, to work as a builder and voicer for the Keates-Geissler Organ Co. In 1955, still in London, he co-founded the Kney and Bright Organ Co, with John Bright, to build tracker-action instruments.
Their 'Opus 1,' a five-stop positive organ, spearhead of the tracker revival in Canada, was reviewed favourably in J.E. Blanton's The Organ in Church Design (Albany, Texas 1967) but found no purchaser.
A well-built tracker action is the most responsive and sensitive of all ac-tions, and GabrielKney is a master of this ancient craft.
The organ was designed for the church by GabrielKney of London, Ontario.
Kney began his career at the age of 15 (just after World War II), as an apprentice with the Paul Sattel firm in his hometown of Speyer-am-Rhein, West Germany.
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