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American millionaire Edward F. Searles will forever be remembered for his obsession with pipe organs. His most famous project was the construction of the magnificent Methuen Memorial Music Hall that houses the historic 1863 Walcker organ, originally installed in the Boston Music Hall. Searles had six other organs built for his homes, and one for his own organ factory. At the age of 46, Searles, then an interior decorator, married the fabulously wealthy widow of railroad magnate Mark Hopkins, 22 years his senior. Her death three years later left Searles with a $30-million fortune. This is the story of his lifetime involvement with the organ, illustrated with magnificent photographs of his many instruments.
OHS Press, 2010, 104 pgs, paperback

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Mr. Searles and the Organ - by James Lewis

$22.95

Murray M. Harris returned in 1894 from his Boston apprenticeship with organ builder George S. Hutchings to a booming Los Angeles where only eight pipe organs existed. Six years later, Los Angeles would have 154 churches in it and scores of new pipe organs, many of them built by Harris. Harris and Henry C. Fletcher became business partners and founded the city’s first organ building firm, Fletcher & Harris. From this beginning more than 100 organs were built by 1913, including the world’s largest for the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, and that would become Philadelphia’s famous Wanamaker Organ.
David Lennox Smith (d. 1979) carefully gathered the history of Harris and his contemporaries and Orpha Ochse has updated Smith’s research with the help of colleagues Manuel Rosales, Kevin Gilchrist, Jim Lewis, and Jack Bethards to include an annotated opus list, listings of organ builders from the Los Angeles City Directories, many stoplists and photographs, and technical details.
OHS Press, 344 pgs, hardbound

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Murray M. Harris and Organ Building in Los Angeles, 1894-1913 - by David Lennox Smith (ed. Orpha Ochse)

$24.95

Music and Its Questions: Essays in Honor of Peter Williams - ed. by Thomas Donahue

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Music and Its Questions: Essays in Honor of Peter Williams - ed. by Thomas Donahue

$79.00

Music on the Green - by Barbara Owen

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Music on the Green - by Barbara Owen

$48.00

The new 2026 Pipe Organ Calendar, featuring instruments in and around Philadelphia, site of the OHS 2026 Platinum Jubilee celebration August 11-14, 2026.

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OHS 2026 Pipe Organ Calendar

Was: $30.00

Now: $12.95

OHS coffee mug

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OHS coffee mug

$17.00

OHS Ornament

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OHS Ornament

$25.00

OHS Press, 2016; 276 pgs, softcover

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OHS Philadelphia 2016 Diamond Jubilee Commemorative Anthology - compiled by Rollin Smith

$34.95

OHS Press' annual Pipe Organ Calendar, featuring instruments in Columbus, Ohio.

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OHS Pipe Organ Calendar - 2020 - Columbus, Ohio

$7.50

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