Church Music & Church Organs

The written documentation of the restoration effort to save the magnificent Tannenberg organ in the Home Moravian Church in Salem, North Carolina, which was completed in 1800. The historical importance of Tannenberg's organ was recognized at the time of its dismantling, and it was not destroyed, but remained in storage in various locations for 88 years. Since its restoration, nearly 200 years of the organ's history have been deciphered and analyzed. With meticulous care and understanding, the organ has been returned to its original state, musically and visually, and now stands in Old Salem as a tribute to the talent and craftsmanship of a master organ builder, David Tannenberg, and the remarkable musical achievement he created in the North Carolina backcountry.
2004; 104 pages; softbound, glossy paper

Splendid Service - The Restoration of David Tannenberg's Home Moravian Church Organ (1800)

$10.00

The 2023 combined efforts of the Royal Canadian College of Organists and the Organ Historical Society are united in this program book from the Festival of Pipes, July1-7 in Toronto, Canada. Over 80 pages of instruments by a variety of builders, and a wide variety of Canadian and American artists. Compiled and edited by Dr. Christopher Anderson, photos by Len Levasseur. You will want this for your library of informative and beautiful OHS handbooks. Limited quantities; order early.

Toronto 2023 Festival of Pipes Program Book

MSRP: $27.95

Was: $27.95

Now: $20.00

Paul Allen Lieber's 2023 book recounting the instruments and their use in St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Bellevue, OH, which includes the John Sole Organ (1895-1933), the Knapp Memorial Organ (1934-1959), the Toledo Pipe Organ (1955-1996), Bunn Minnick and MP Moeller. Available in both hard cover and soft cover, 105 pgs, many photos.

Making a Joyful Noise: History and Evolving Use of the Organs in a rural Lutheran Parish, 1895-2021; Paul A. Lieber

$24.95

Paul Fischer's 2015 picture book with short essays about piano and organ builders in and around Erie, PA, between 1871-2013. Soft cover; over 90 pages

Making Music - The History of the Organ and Piano Industries in Erie, PA; Paul E. Fischer

$29.95

Barbara Owen's annotated and documented work list of E. & G.G. Hook and Hook & Hastings in the state of Maine.
OHS Press, softcover, 133 pages, copyright 2017.

Organ Historical Society

Barbara Owen, Hook Organs in the State of Maine

$24.95

David W. Music and Paul Westermeyer, Church Music in the United States

David W. Music and Paul Westermeyer, Church Music in the United States

$24.95

In 1984, The Boston Organ Club chapter of the Organ Historical Society issued The Johnson Organs, a ground-breaking study by John Van Varick Elsworth. It featured the first published, annotated work list of an American organ builder, and included all 860 of his organs! This 2015 edition, under the affectionate direction of the noted author and historian, Barbara Owen, the Johnson list has been re-annotated in greater detail and brought up to date. Combined with dozens of facsimiles, a year-by year accounting of the firm, and a detailed restoration report by nationally respected organ restorer, Scot L. Huntington, Stephen L. Pinel and Martin R. Walsh, this 240-page volume is sure to fascinate. The book should be in the library of every devotee of the American pipe organ. 2015; soft cover; 240 pgs, OHS Press.

Scot L. Huntington, Barbara Owen, Stephen L. Pinel, and Martin Walsh, Johnson Organs 1844-1898: William A. Johnson, Johnson Organ Company, Johnson and Son

$32.95