The Chilean Pipe Organ Site


About this web site, and the authors

Dr. Carlos Lauterbach Rotach




   About this web site, and the authors

Carlos Lauterbach was born in may 1944 in Lontué, Chile.

He got he degree in Engineering in 1969 at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

In 1977 he got his Doctorate in Computer Science at the University of California, at Los Angeles.

Dr Lauterbach's interest in organs is longly dated, and his first work was the repair and tuning of the organ at his parish, the Parroquia del Sagrado Corazón de Providencia, in 1961

Later, en 1985, he aquired the organ of the Padres Redentoristas Seminary, which had been destroyed by a mayor earth quaque. With the help of organ builder Dr. Luis González, he rebuilt the instrument, which now is located at his home.

Lately, he helped Dr González, the only organ builder in Chile, in the installation of the new organ at the Cathedral of Valdivia, doing the electrification of said instrument.