Definition of "organ-building" [organ-building]

• The art, trade, or occupation of making organs, usually pipe-organs, but sometimes reed-organs as well. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Incredibly, all 22 organ-building firms in East Germany survived under communism."
• "They did so by helping one another -- just as the West German organ-building association is helping them now."
• "England, but also behind France, and even Germany, in the art of organ-building until comparatively a few years ago."