The hybrid pipe organs designed by Consoli factory offer the possibility to connect your current pipe organ, or a new one to pre-existing Consoles.
With the advent of the digital age, we have been the first and only manufacturers in the world to exclusively realize the digital transmission system “TDS by Consoli”. The originality of this innovation consists in connecting our pipe organs to the most important world brands of digital consoles for churches:
Using a standard or custom phonic disposition, it is possible to combine the sound of real pipes with that of the console you prefer.
Moreover, our technology, coupled with a great experience in restoration and conservative recovery, gives new life to ancient organs, minimizing maintenance problems –which often discourage users from the restorating, even organs of historical importance.
110 years and three generations of experience: in tradition and innovation, successfully adopted throughout the world in many installations. Consoli hybrid pipe organs offer a limitless selection and variety of sounds compared to most only acoustic organs. Our goal is to offer a more accessible instrument, with excellent performances, technological innovation, richness and authenticity of sound, great reliability and little maintenance at low cost. This is the outcome of the great Consoli organ tradition and constant technological research.
unique in the world is the modular production system of the pipe body that allows, according to the needs and budget available, to build the body with the facade (using the main sets of stops) at first and expand it later according to different needs. Obviously, in order to compensate for the initial lack of real stops, there are the console stops, which, thanks to the multi-channel amplification system, combine the digital sound with the real pipes, creating a full-bodied sound that far exceeds the imagination.
enables a constant tuning between the pitch of digital sounds and those of the pipes. Thanks to a temperature probe that detects and communicates to the console the different frequencies of the pipes, the console sounds are always perfectly in unison with real pipes.
Experience and respect of old generations, together with the new technological sources, are the basis of Consoli philosophy, which allows us to conceive and develop traditional quality products, without renouncing the advantages offered by new technology.
The founder of the Consoli family was Cav. Francesco Consoli (1869 – 1944).Born in Locorotondo, was the father Donato, accorder of pianos and armoniums, to instil him the great love for the organicistic art that he learned excellently.In 1886, Francesco Consoli, after a year working in Naples for a pianos factory, he moved to Turin working for the “Casa Organaria Vegezzi Bossi” (the most prestigious factory in Italy at that time), where he learned and clenched the art of building organs for 22 years before reaching the graduation at factory’s chief. In 1908, when he came back to Locorotondo, he founded the “Fabbrica Arcivescovile d’Organi” bringing back in Puglia (a southern region of Italy) an ancient tradition forgiven by centuries. Meanwhile, his cousin Leonardo, (1875 – 1944) a master organ player of the Mother Church of Locorotondo, also piano and flute player, took the graduation in repairing pedal armonium. His son Giovanni (1905 – 1993), working in the factory of Francesco Consoli, took all the necessary knowledge, that he taught later to his first son Leonardo Consoli (1927 – 1997). And so, Leonardo pass his first 20 years with his grandfather. From him he will learn all the knowledge to according and repairing pianos and armoniums; at the same time, from his father Giovanni, (who worked in the Francesco Consoli factory), he took the techniques of building, according and restoration of the pipe organs. At the age of 23, (1950), Leonardo goes living in Castelfidardo (AN – Italy), to specialize himself into construction and according of accordion and little organs in some of the most famed factories in there place. Came back in his hometown in 1954, where established his own activity with a restoration and reparation laboratory of organs, pianos, accordions and armoniums. Some factory workers of the Francesco Consoli factory (that ceased his activity), came to work with him. In 1965, Leonardo Consoli start his activity of building pipe organs with electric transmission; thereafter, some years later, the building of handmade pianos. The establishing will continue until the 80’s, where incomes his first son Giovanni Consoli with his sons Francesco and Leonardo, holders of the actual factory. Giovanni goes on adding at the great and long experience taken from the apprentice with his father, the most advanced technological solutions of the time. Following the digital era, makes a project and realize in exclusive the first Standard Digital Transmission (Consoli TDS). The originality of this invention it’s the connection between the pipes body to the console with a simple shielded cable with two poles (universally utilized with computers, and of guaranteed reliability). The completely absence of retard between the touch of the key and the opening of the air in the pipe to long distance with the highest reliability of the instrument, are the proof of the most advanced technology applied. Performances that were impossible first. The 24th of December of 1999, the CONSOLI DTS technology has been used in S. Peter Square in Rome in a concert for the opening of the Jubileum, with the littlest organ of the Consoli Production. The concert appeared live on tv through whole Italy. The Giovanni Consoli Factory is actually the only pipes organ factory in south Italy to install instruments projected with Standard Digital Transmission even in Europe and other continents all around the world. The TDS CONSOLI System, perfectly used for 40 years, offers a series of exclusives advantages.