The Allen Organ Company builds church organs, home organs, and theatre organs. Its factory is located in Macungie, Pennsylvania. The Allen International Sales Headquarters also includes the Jerome Markowitz Memorial Center, a museum. It displays many instruments that represent technological milestones in the development of the pipeless, electronicorgan. Customers of the Allen Organ Company can choose from an array of sounds. Because of hard chips and computer programming, organs can be programmed to the customer’s taste. If sounds aren’t to a customer’s satisfaction, the organ can be re-tuned or reprogrammed at home by a company representative. Many churches are switching over to computer processed organs, made or inspired by the Allen Organ Company’s models, as opposed to the traditional pipe organs. History Allen Organ Company was founded in 1937 and named after its birthplace, Allentown, Pennsylvania. The company was incorporated in 1945, after interruption by World War II. Since its beginning, Allen has been managed by the same family. Steve Markowitz, the current President, is the son of the founder, Jerome Markowitz. The company had its first patent in 1938. Allen continued to advance analog tone generation through the 1960s with further patents. In 1971, as the culmination of a collaborative effort with North American Rockwell, Allen introduced the world's first commercially-available digital musical instrument. Allen was responsible for the first three-manual electronic organ and the first electronic drawknob console. The first Allen Digital Organ is now in the Smithsonian Institution. Allen Organ Company added a manufacturing branch in England in 1969. 1947: Allen installed the world's first three-manual electronic organ in St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania. 1949: full-range, high-fidelity stereo audio equipment was incorporated in Allen installations. 1950: "Purely Electronic Carillon," "Harp Percussion" and sustain effects were introduced. 1952: "Chromatic Voicing" was introduced. 1953: Manufacturing was relocated to Macungie, Pennsylvania, to expand capacity. 1954: Allen built the first four-manual electronic organ. 1955: Allen developed the first electronic 32' stops used with pipe organs. 1958: the TC-1 was the world's first transistor church organ. 1959: Solid State Tone Generation (transistors) replaced vacuum tube oscillators in the entire Allen line. 1960: Allen introduced its patented "Random Motion Electronic", or "Whind". 1963: First European representation established in Zurich, Switzerland. 1969: Allen entered into a joint venture with North American Rockwell for digital sound research and development. The Digital Computer Organ employed LSI (Large Scale Integration) circuits. 1971: Using the technical