# Mortier

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Mortier
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Mortier.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortier
> Source revision: 1285850759
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

{{otheruses}}
[[File:Stahls Automotive Collection December 2021 013 (1930 Mortier Café Organ).jpg|thumb|Mortier Café Organ at [Stahls Automotive Collection](/source/Stahls_Automotive_Collection)]]

'''Mortier''' was an [organ](/source/Organ_(music)) manufacturer from [Antwerp](/source/Antwerp), [Belgium](/source/Belgium) that made [dance organ](/source/dance_organ)s and [orchestrion](/source/orchestrion)s. 

== History ==
The company was founded by [Theophile Mortier](/source/Theophile_Mortier) (1855–1944). Mortier started in 1898 as a vending agent for the Parisian organ builder [Gavioli & Cie](/source/Gavioli), 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](/source/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](/source/Guillaume_Bax) managed this shop. In 1906 Mortier started to build organs himself, as an annex of the Gavioli company. 

Due to internal operations difficulties, Gavioli could after a while not deliver enough orders and Mortier began to manufacture the dance organs under his own name. After the First World War the company expanded to a size where they employed 80 personnel and had a capacity to build about 20 large dance organs per year. No other manufacturer has matched the cubic meter volume of organs produced by Mortier. The company stayed active until 1948.

==See also==
*[Museum Speelklok](/source/Museum_Speelklok), [Utrecht](/source/Utrecht_(city))
*[National Heritage Museum, Arnhem](/source/National_Heritage_Museum%2C_Arnhem)
*[Pipe organ](/source/Pipe_organ)

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20051029161739/http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~oneskull/3.6.11.htm Fairground organs], with a photograph of a colorful 112-key Mortier dance organ
*[http://www.dansorgels.nl/ Dance Organs (Dansorgels)]
*[https://www.thmortier.be/index.php/en/ Website about the Mortier firm and the book 'The Mortier Story']

Category:Pipe organ building companies
Category:Manufacturing companies based in Antwerp
Category:Musical instrument manufacturing companies of Belgium

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Mortier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortier) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortier?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.