Rodgers Instruments LLC is an American manufacturer of classical and church organs. Rodgers was founded in 1958 by Rodgers W. Jenkins and Fred Tinker, employees of Tektronix, Inc., of Portland, Oregon, and members of a Tektronix team developing transistor-based oscillator circuits. Rodgers claims to be the first manufacturer of solid state oscillator-based organs, completing their first instrument in 1958. Other Rodgers innovations in the electro...
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Rodgers Instruments LLC is an American manufacturer of classical and church organs. Rodgers was founded in 1958 by Rodgers W. Jenkins and Fred Tinker, employees of Tektronix, Inc., of Portland, Oregon, and members of a Tektronix team developing transistor-based oscillator circuits. Rodgers claims to be the first manufacturer of solid state oscillator-based organs, completing their first instrument in 1958. Other Rodgers innovations in the electronic organ industry include solid-state organ amplifiers (1962), single contact diode keying (1961), reed switch pedal keying for pedalboards (1961), programmable computer memory pistons (1966), and MIDI support (1987).
Rodgers' primary factory is located in Hillsboro, Oregon with additional manufacturing done in Japan and Italy. All full size, American Guild of Organists standard 32 pedal note classical organ models are built in the Oregon factory.
Rodgers' success was largely due to their early innovations with solid state analog tone...
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