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A Visit to Our Workshop |
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Fratelli Ruffatti, ca. 1960. Over half a century in the same location. |
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Welcome to our workshop! Here you will see some interesting and important aspects of our daily work. It is a family run shop, where Piero and Francesco Ruffatti are personally and deeply involved in all phases of planning, construction, quality control, and voicing of their instruments. In addition, you will see that, instead of being outsourced, the most important components of our instruments are manufactured in house, thus obtaining the ultimate control over the many variables that “make the difference”. |
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We were among the first in the world, years ago, to apply CAD techniques to pipe organ design. Today, we utilize the latest 3-D computerized techniques for the architectural planning of our instruments. |
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The woodworking department is where entire instruments are assembled prior to shipping to their final destinations. |
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Our beautiful mahogany pipes are lovingly crafted with skill and precision. |
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From those the size of a pencil to these 32' giants, all of our pipes are made by hand in our factory. |
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For more information on Ruffatti pipes, click here. |
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Wood carving by hand is a specialty
at Fratelli Ruffatti. |
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The individual fitting of each pipe on its rackboard. |
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A complete metal shop allows us to manufacture in-house a myriad of metal components |
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Manufacturing the iron structural supports for one of our instruments |
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Each reed block is individually shaped
on the lathe. For more information on reed pipes, click here. |
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Our console and assembly department. For more information about our consoles, click here. |
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Re-leathering a wedge-type bellows for the
restoration of an historical organ. For more information on historical restoration, click here. |
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Gluing pneumatic valves. |
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Pipe metal sheets are cast over the marble table just as our predecessors did centuries ago. The only difference: strict health safety measures for protection of personnel. |
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The shaping and soldering of metal pipes
is entirely done by hand. |
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Pipe voicing: the cutting of the mouth’s “upper lip”. |
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The preliminary voicing of the pipes. It will be performed once again at final destination, to adapt the sound to the room acoustics. |
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E-mail to: organs@ruffatti.com
© 1998, 2009 Famiglia Artigiana Fratelli Ruffatti. All rights reserved. |
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