John Snetzler (or Schnetzler) was an organ builder of Swiss origin who worked mostly in England.
He was born in Schaffhausen in 1710. He trained with the firm of Egedacher in Passau and came to London c. 1741. On his retirement in 1781, his business continued and eventually ended up in the hands of Thomas Elliot.
He died in Schaffhausen, 28 September 1785.
Belle Skinner Collection, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1742 (restored 1983 by Noel Mander)
St Saviour's Chapel, Cathedral of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Norwich, Norfolk 1745
St Andrew's Qualified Chapel, Carrubbers' Close, Edinburgh 1747, now in University of Glasgow Concert Hall
Fulneck Moravian Church, Leeds 1748
St Margaret's, King's Lynn 1754
St Paul's Church, Sheffield 1755
St Leonard's Church, Swithland, Leicestershire, 1756
Duke of Bedford's musical gallery 1756, now St Mary the Virgin, Hillington, Norfolk
Holy Trinity Church, Hull 1756 & 1758
Chapel of St John, St John Street, Edinburgh, 1757; the organ purchased by Lodge Canongate Kilwinning No2, is featured in the picture of Burns being made Poet laureate of the lodge and is in regular use, still hand pumped
Buckingham Palace 1760, now Eton College Chapel
Buckingham Palace 1760, now Chapel Royal, St James's Palace
Unitarian Church, Hastings, 1760 (Restored 2010 by Matthew Copley) BA
The New Room, Bristol 1761 (Installed around 1930, previously elsewhere)
Congregational Church of South Dennis, Massachusetts, U.S.A., built 1762, installed 1854
Concert Hall (Boston, Massachusetts), 1763–1774
St Laurence Church, Ludlow, Shropshire, 1764
Peterhouse, Cambridge 1765
Halifax Parish Church 1766
St Michael's Episcopal Church, Charleston, South Carolina, USA 1768 (Case only; new organ 1994 by Kenneth Jones of Bray, Ireland)
Beverley Minster 1769
St Malachy's Parish Church, Hillsborough, County Down 1772-3
National Museum Cardiff 1774, given by Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn
St Mary's Church, Nottingham 1777
Rotherham Minster 1777
St Anne's Parish Church, Belfast 1781
St Mary and All Saints Church, Sculthorpe, Norfolk
Church of St Andrew, Blickling, Norfolk
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