Henry Willis & Sons is a British firm of pipe organ builders founded in 1845. Although most of their installations have been in the UK, examples can be found in other countries.
Reading Town Hall organ, built by Willis in 1864, extended in 1882 and rebuilt by Harrison & Harrison in 1999
St Bees Priory organ, the last major instrument to be personally supervised by "Father" Henry Willis, 1899
The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard. Because each pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks, each of which has a common timbre, volume, and construction throughout the keyboard compass. Most organs have many ranks of pipes of differing pitch, timbre, and volume that the player can employ singly or in combination through the use of controls called stops.
Pipe organ in the collegiate church of St. Michael in Neunkirchen am Brand
Hydraulis from the 1st century BC, oldest organ found to date, Museum of Dion, Greece
4th century AD "Mosaic of the Female Musicians" from a Byzantine villa in Maryamin, Syria.
9th century image of an organ, from the Utrecht Psalter.