Editing Rodgers Instruments (section)

{{short description|American manufacturer}}
{{More footnotes|date=October 2016}}
{{Infobox company
| name             = Rodgers Instruments Corporation
| logo             = Rodgers Instruments logo.png
| logo_size        = 200px
| image            = Rodgers Instruments headquarters - Hillsboro, Oregon.jpg
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| fate             =
| predecessor      =
| successor        =
| foundation       = {{start date and age|1958|5|1}}
| founder          = Rodgers W. Jenkins<br/>Fred Tinker
| defunct          =
| location_city    = [[Hillsboro, Oregon]]
| location_country = United States
| location         = {{Coord|45.56518|-122.89858|region:US_type:landmark|display=inline,title}}
| locations        =
| area_served      =
| key_people       = John Moesbergen, president
| industry         =
| products         = classical church organs (digital and pipes, also combined)
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| owner            = 1988-2015 [[Roland Corporation|Roland]]<br/>2016-Present [[Johannus|Vandeweerd]]
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| parent           = [https://www.globalorgangroup.com Global Organ Group]
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| homepage         = [http://www.rodgersinstruments.com Rodgers Instruments Corporation]
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'''Rodgers Instruments Corporation''' is an American manufacturer of classical and church [[organ (instrument)|organs]].  Rodgers was incorporated May 1, 1958 in Beaverton, Oregon by founders, Rodgers W. Jenkins and Fred Tinker,  employees of [[Tektronix]], Inc., of Portland, Oregon, and members of a Tektronix team developing transistor-based oscillator circuits.<ref name=RodgersOrganStudio>{{cite web |title=A Brief Timeline of Rodgers History |year=2008 |publisher=Rodgers Organ Studio of Minneapolis |url=http://www.rodgersmnwi.com/history.htm}}</ref> Rodgers was the second manufacturer of [[Solid state (electronics)|solid state]] oscillator-based organs, completing their first instrument in 1958 (the first was the [[Gulbransen]] "B" home organ, introduced in July 1957. Both the Rodgers and the Gulbransen had vacuum-tube amplifiers. In 1962, upon introducing solid-state amplifiers, Rodgers became the world's first all-transistor organ).<ref name=RodgersOrganStudio/> Other Rodgers innovations in the electronic organ industry include solid-state organ amplifiers (1962),<ref name=RodgersOrganStudio/> single-contact diode keying (1961),<ref name=Pugno2008>{{cite web |last=Pugno |first=Frank |year=2007 |title=Rodgers Organs |publisher=The Theatre Organ Home Page |url=http://theatreorgans.com/hammond/keng/kenhtml/Rogers%20Organ%20Page.htm}}</ref> [[reed switch]] pedal keying for pedalboards (1961),<ref name=Pugno2008/> programmable computer memory pistons (1966),<ref name=RodgersOrganStudio/> and the first [[MIDI]]-supported church organs (1986).<ref name=RodgersOrganStudio/>

Rodgers' manufacturing facility and world headquarters is located in [[Hillsboro, Oregon]]. All Rodgers organs are built in the Oregon factory.<ref name=RodgersOrganStudio/>

On January 4, 2016, [[Roland Corporation]] agreed to the Dutch Vandeweerd family’s acquisition of the American company Rodgers Instruments, effective January 15, 2016.<ref>[http://www.roland.com/release/pdf/2016/20160116.pdf Roland Corporation News] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313104834/http://www.roland.com/release/pdf/2016/20160116.pdf |date=2016-03-13 }}</ref><ref name=Keybord2016>{{cite journal |title=Roland Corporation and the Vandeweerd Family Enter into an Acquisition of Rodgers |journal=Keyboard |date=January 18, 2016 |url=http://www.keyboardmag.com/gear/1183/roland-corporation-and-the-vandeweerd-family-enter-into-an-acquisition-of-rodgers/56047}}</ref> The Vandeweerd family (Global Organ Group) already owned three other organ brands:  [[Johannus]], Makin and Copeman Hart.<ref name="JOHANNUS UK 2016 NEWS">{{cite journal |title=Makin, Johannus, Copeman Hart, and now Rodgers! |journal=ChurchOrganWorld |date=March 2016 |url=https://churchorganworld.co.uk/makin-johannus-copeman-hart-and-now-rodgers/}}</ref>