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The Organ Historical Society publishes books, a quarterly journal, an annual study of organs by locale, and also produces sound recordings on CD. Upon creation of the Society in 1956, publication of the quarterly journal began, with the annual study of organs by locale beginning shortly thereafter in connection with the Society's annual convention. The first book was published in 1984.

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.

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Hook Organs in the State of Maine - by Barbara Owen

$24.95

Organ Building: Journal of the Institute of British Organ Building, Volume 11

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Organ Building: Journal of the Institute of British Organ Building, Volume 11

$35.98

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

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Bardon Enterprises, Portsmouth;2005, 225 pgs, hardbound with dust jacket

The Organ and Its Position in Musical Art: A Book for Musicians and Amateurs - by H. Heathcote Statham

$35.00

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Robin Pratt (editor), Archer Gibson and his Records for the Aeolian Duo-Art Organ

$5.00

James Lewis is an organist, organ historian and commercial photographer. He has researched the organs of California for over thirty-five years and has published articles on the subject in several periodicals. A fascinating exploration of the instruments that emerged in California in the nineteenth century following the 1848 Gold Rush.

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Pipe Organs of Northern California by James Lewis

$19.95

A fascinating look at the Hilborne and Frank Roosevelt Organ Company, with many photos and complete appendices on the locations of Roosevelt's instruments. David Fox, 2012; 366 pgs, soft cover

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Hilborne and Frank Roosevelt - by David H. Fox

$32.95

This is the story of the Aeolian-Skinner organ at Stoneleigh, the former home of the Haas family and now the headquarters of the Organ Historical Society. The organ contract was signed in 1931 with the Aeolian company, the world's premiere builder of residence organs. But with the new company formed in 1932 by the merger of Aeolian with the Skinner Organ Company, this became the first residence organ installed by the new Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company. Rollin Smith's new book traces in detail the organ from its first home in West Orange, New Jersey, to its present home in Villanova, Pennsylvania. From the wealth of documentation on the Aeolian and Skinner firms available in the OHS Library and Archives, the story of this fascinating instrument is told through contracts, shop notes, architectural drawings, and photographs - a truly fascinating history of a unique historic American organ.
OHS Press, 2018; 125 pgs, hard cover

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Organ Historical Society at Stoneleigh: Aeolian-Skinner No. 878 - by Rollin Smith

$29.95

The definitive text on the history and location of Aeolian and Aeolian/Skinner pipe organs in the United States. Second Edition, 2018, 638 pgs.

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The Aeolian Pipe Organ And Its Music, 2nd edition - by Rollin Smith

$90.00

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