Ewald Kienle

Ewald Kienle ( born December 21, 1928 in Nut Village ) is a German inventor and entrepreneur. He developed and produced electronic church organs.

Life and work

Kienle was born the son of a village blacksmith and his Sicilian wife. At the age of 15, he was ordered away from the classroom to the aircraft manufacturer Messerschmitt to learn there aircraft. After the war ended in 1945, he dealt with the improvement and repair of radios and television sets first and eventually began developing its own organs.

From 1970 produced Ewald Kienle own analog Organs ( Kienle T- model), which in 1971 by the Physikalisch -Technische Bundesanstalt a lively sound was certified. These Ewald Kienle began experimenting with resonator tubes to improve speaker sound system, and finally realized in 1980 in the Catholic Church of St. Roch in Bonn- Duisdorf the first sacral analog organ with resonators.

As of 1980, Ewald Kienle dealt with the development of digital Organs. 1985 Europe's first digital church organ (model Kienle PK II) were prepared in the form of a raised hand at the European Parliament in Strasbourg and opened with a Bach concert.

From 1990, Ewald Kienle started doing research on the use of original organ pipes without nuclear as resonators ( " pipe resonators "), which he has since, partly supplemented by resonator tubes, started for the named after him Kienle sound radiation in digital organs of any kind.

From 1970 to Ewald Kienle had acquired several patents, first in the field of analog organs. His other inventions led to the technically complex airflow sound excitation of organ pipes could be replaced by a simple executable, but at the same frequency richer speaker sound stimulation. This led to a next sound innovations reduction in manufacturing cost to about one tenth of the cost of a comparable church organ. Since, moreover, accounted for the high maintenance costs associated with traditional pipe organs especially by their susceptibility to temperature and humidity fluctuations, acquisition and maintenance of an organ were affordable for smaller parishes.

Ewald Kienle has placed more than 3,000 organs in around 50 years. The instruments are available in Europe and in South Africa, Peru and Russia. 2010 created the largest organ with the Kienle sound radiation in the concert hall of the newly designed Tbilisi Centre in Tbilisi / Georgia.

2011 was Ewald Kienle his Ewald Kienle e.K. run a sole trader company to reasons of age. His life's work was a direct continuation by the newly established Kienle organs GmbH.