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About this web site, and the authors
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Dr. Luis González Catalán began in Organism with Dr Roy Wilson while he was
organist of the Church of San Isidro in Santiago de Chile.
He later attended to his organ teacher, Dr Judson Maynard of the
Texas Tech University, in Lubboc, in organ repair
while tuning.
The knowledge acquired with them allowed him to maintain one hundred percent the organ
of the Cathedral Church of Santiago, which was entrusted to him upon his return from the USA.
He began a friendship that still lasts with the "misunderstood" organ builder John Moir, whom
assists in the preliminary recovery work of the Cavaille‑Coll organ of the
San Ignacio de Santiago School.
It was a concert in tribute to France, on the occasion of July 14, which allowed him to leave to
France in October 1972 to carry out repair and maintenance Learning Stages
of Organs at the Maison Danion‑Gonzalez (Paris, La Fleche, Le Mans, Venevelles), and
at the Atelier Koenig in Sarre Union, Alsace.
From 1975 he restarted his work with Moir in the Churches of San Ignacio, San Francisco
and Santa Ana in the capital, and the Agua Santa organ in Viña del Mar.
He later became independent, initiating his brothers Patricio and Sergio in the restoration of
pipe instruments, entrusting them with the mechanical part, to dedicate themselves exclusively
to the sound part of harmonization (intonation) and tube tuning.
Together they have already carried out thirty restorations from Iquique to Punta Arenas.
The last instrument restored was that of the Church of San Agustín, delivered with the concert
Bach on the 250th anniversary of the Master's death (July 20, 2000).
Dr. Luis González has also performed organ maintenance in Germany (Grimma,
Wangen, Wigratzbad), France and Switzerland.
Dr. González's email is luchorganista@yahoo.es
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