Dorian Gray

Orgelbau · Lubeck

Opus 47 · Anno 2026 · Mechanical Action

d.gray@example.com +49 555 0193 447 gray-orgelbau.example.com An der Obertrave 12, Lubeck

Voicing Note

I build and restore tracker organs, 19 years at the bench, 11 instruments delivered as project lead. My last new build had 34 stops across 3 divisions and came in 4 weeks ahead of schedule. I tune by ear first and by machine second, and I am told my scaling tables are unreasonably tidy.

Specification of Stops

Great Construction

Case Joinery8′
Windchest Building8′
Tracker Action8′
Metal Pipe Making8′
Wood Pipe Making8′
Bellows & Wind8′

Swell Voicing & Finish

Flue Voicing8′
Reed Voicing8′
Historic Temperaments8′
Scaling & Mensuration8′
On-site Tonal Finishing8′

Pedal Practice & Trade

Restoration Ethics8′
Archival Documentation8′
Project Costing8′
Apprentice Training8′
Client Liaison (DE/EN/DK)8′

Couplers

Joinery / Voicing Workshop / Site Archive / Bench Design / Costing Master / Apprentice

Console

CAD CNC Tin 75% Oak Pear Felt Hide Glue Cone Tune

II / P · Suspended Action · 56 / 30 Notes

Workshop Record

Master Builder & Workshop Lead Ostseeorgelbau Feddersen, Lubeck 2016–present

Led design and delivery of 7 new tracker instruments, 12 to 34 stops, total contract value 4.1 million EUR.
Restored the 1783 Wittkopp organ of St. Ansgar, Flensburg: 1,412 pipes documented, 87% original material retained.
Cut average on-site tonal finishing time from 9 weeks to 6 by pre-voicing full choruses in the workshop.

Journeyman, Voicing Department Orgelwerkstatt Brandholt & Sohn, Stade 2010–2016

Voiced roughly 3,800 flue pipes across 9 instruments, including two full principal choruses at 16 foot basis.
Rebuilt reed shallots for a 27-stop instrument in Ribe, Denmark; client sign-off after a single revision round.

Apprentice Organ Builder Werkstatt Cornelius Havekamp, Ostenfelde 2007–2010

Completed 3-year apprenticeship covering joinery, windchest work, and pipe metal casting at 2 mm sheet tolerance.
Passed the journeyman examination with a working chest model of 4 stops, graded 1.3.

Training

2013 · Master craftsman diploma (Orgelbaumeister), Chamber of Crafts, Hamburg

2007–2010 · Apprenticeship, organ and harmonium building

2011 · Guest term, historic temperament studies, Gothenburg workshop seminar

Registration

Since 2014 · Listed restorer, North German church province register

2019 · Certified for work on protected historic instruments, class B

Member · International Society of Organbuilders (ISO)

Dorian Gray · Fecit Lubecae · References and stop-by-stop portfolio on request