Rodgers Instruments

Rodgers Instruments Corporation is an American manufacturer of classical and church <a href="/facts/Organ_(instrument)/QjxVlXU5">organs</a>. Rodgers was incorporated May 1, 1958 in Beaverton, Oregon by founders, Rodgers W. Jenkins and Fred Tinker, employees of <a href="/facts/Tektronix/4yPXfhmV">Tektronix</a>, Inc., of Portland, Oregon, and members of a Tektronix team developing transistor-based oscillator circuits. Rodgers was the second manufacturer of <a href="/facts/Solid_state_(electronics)/US0Qbq28">solid state</a> oscillator-based organs, completing their first instrument in 1958 (the first was the <a href="/facts/Gulbransen/fId4IKx6">Gulbransen</a> "B" home organ, introduced in July 1957. Both the Rodgers and the Gulbransen had vacuum-tube amplifiers. In 1962, upon introducing solid-state amplifiers, Rodgers became the world's first all-transistor organ). Other Rodgers innovations in the electronic organ industry include solid-state organ amplifiers (1962), single-contact diode keying (1961), <a href="/facts/Reed_switch/NLtq4a2W">reed switch</a> pedal keying for pedalboards (1961), programmable computer memory pistons (1966), and the first <a href="/facts/MIDI/tblhmeFV">MIDI</a>-supported church organs (1986).
Rodgers' manufacturing facility and world headquarters is located in <a href="/facts/Hillsboro,_Oregon/UBzxnGws">Hillsboro, Oregon</a>. All Rodgers organs are built in the Oregon factory.
On January 4, 2016, <a href="/facts/Roland_Corporation/S6FG8UfS">Roland Corporation</a> agreed to the Dutch Vandeweerd family’s acquisition of the American company Rodgers Instruments, effective January 15, 2016. The Vandeweerd family (Global Organ Group) already owned three other organ brands: <a href="/facts/Johannus/2Rc9oUBA">Johannus</a>, Makin and Copeman Hart.

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Rodgers Instruments