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Benjamin Flight (1767–1847), was an English
Benjamin Flight (1767–1847), was an English organ builder
Organ building is the profession of designing, building, restoring and maintaining pipe organs.
The Organ builders , organ builder usually receives a commission to design an organ with a particular disposition of Organ stop, stops, Manual (mu ...
and part of the firm Flight & Robson.
Flight was the son of Benjamin Flight ( 1772–1805), who belonged to the organ building firm Flight & Kelly. With his son J. Flight and Joseph Robson, Flight constructed the apollonicon The Apollonicon was presented to the public the first time in 1817 built by the English Organ builders Flight & Robson in London.
It was an automatic playing machine with about 1,900 pipes and 45 organ stops with a technic familiar to the barrel org ...
, an instrument with five manuals, forty-five stops, and three barrels. This ingenious contrivance was exhibited from 1817 until 1840. The partnership with Robson was afterwards dissolved, but Flight continued to interest himself in certain invention
An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition, idea or process. An invention may be an improvement upon a machine, product, or process for increasing efficiency or lowering cost. It may also be an entirely new concept. If an i ...
s and improvements in the mechanism of organs.
After his father's death in 1847, J. Flight carried on with the business until 1885.
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1767 births 1847 deaths British pipe organ builders {{UK-music-bio-stub