Builder: Theophile Mortier Notes from Wikipedia: The company was founded by Theophile Mortier (1855–1944). Mortier
started in 1898 as a vending agent for the Parisian organ builder
Gavioli & Cie, in a period when the French and German organ industry
was in full bloom. Theophile Mortier was originally the manager of a
dance hall, in which there was always a Gavioli organ playing. He
made it a habit to sell the installed organ after a short while. He
was fortunate enough most of the time to make a profit on selling
these used organs. As time went by he became more and more an organ
dealer and a very good customer of Gavioli. He set up a repair shop
in order to provide maintenance and repair for the organs, which he
had sold. The organ builder Guillaume Bax managed this shop. In 1906
Mortier started to build organs himself, as an annex of the Gavioli
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