OHS Gifts

For a period of over fifty years, one of America’s most influential transitional figures in pipe organ tonal design preached the gospel of organ reform to whomever would listen. His novel ideas were received with alacrity throughout most of the organ design and organ playing community of mid-twentieth century America. Assembled here for the first time are selected correspondence, essays, and lectures of Lawrence I. Phelps—all in chronological order, in which the reader observes first-hand the development of a tonal philosophy that would dominate conventional design and tonal techniques of pipe organs for decades into the future. New, fall 2025

Organ Historical Society

Lawrence Phelps, Organbuilder - In His Own Words, edited and annotated by Bynum Petty

$44.95

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

Organ Historical Society

OHS 2026 Pipe Organ Calendar

$30.00

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

Organ Historical Society

OHS Pipe Organ Calendar - 2020 - Columbus, Ohio

$7.50

OHS Press' annual Pipe Organ Calendar, this one featuring instruments in Dallas, Texas.

OHS Press 2019 Pipe Organ Calendar - Dallas, TX

$7.50

OHS Press' annual calendar, this one featuring instruments in and around Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota.

OHS 2017 Pipe Organ Calendar - The Twin Cities

$7.50

OHS Press' 2012 Pipe Organ calendar, featuring instruments in and near Chicago, IL

Organ Historical Society

2012 OHS Press Pipe Organ Calendar

$7.50

La Dolce Volta, November 2024; 77 minutes
Olivier Latry at Notre-Dame de Paris

La Dolce Volta

Bach to Notre-Dame, Olivier Latry

$24.95

OHS 2025 - MILWAUKEE
Featuring never-before-published convention instrument photos from Milwaukee and the surrounding region.

2025 OHS PIPE ORGAN CALENDAR - limited number remaining. Free shipping!

$7.50

Since the first volume of Pipe Organs of the Rich and Famous appeared in 2014, the question has been asked many times: “When will there be a volume two?” It is now in production, and focuses on organs played and owned by famous individuals, many perhaps not so rich, but most are more famous than the subjects discussed in the first volume. In Volume Two, we explore organs associated with prominent Americans: the Fords, James Deering, the Ringling Brothers, Thomas Edison, and Joseph Pulitzer; humanitarians Albert Schweitzer and Martin Luther King; organ virtuosos: Daquin, Bruckner, E. Power Biggs, and Virgil Fox; famous preachers Henry Ward Beecher, Mary Baker Eddy, and Aimee Semple McPherson; and great composers: Beethoven, Wagner, Verdi, Reger, Messiaen, and Elgar; and the trinity of French organ composers: Guilmant, Widor, and Vierne.
This volume is profusely illustrated with many previously-unseen photographs, organ stoplists, and biographies of any number of people not usually associated with the King of Instruments.
We hope to have included something for everyone’s interest and taste, but especially we hope to have shown the organ in all its facets, both sacred and secular, serious and entertaining, and the myriad way it enters our lives and continues to give inspiration as well as pleasure to so many millions of people. 2024; over 600 pages, Organ Historical Society Press.

Pipe Organs of the Rich and Famous, Vol 2, by Rollin Smith

$109.95

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