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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

OHS Press, 2015; 180 pgs (b/w), softcover

Organ Historical Society

Burton K. Tidwell: Lawrence Phelps, Organbuilder

$32.95

The pipe organ varies more than any other musical instrument in tonal quality and architecture. Written for the professional organ builder, tonal designer, and pipe voicer, this book explains how the vast range of organ sounds are achieved, and explores in depth the relationships between the scaling and voicing of organ pipes, acoustics, wind system dynamics, and temperaments. First published 2012 by CC&A, LLC; hardbound, 191 pgs.

Michael McNeil, The Sound of Pipe Organs

$49.99

Fifty-two Years of Organs in Los Angeles 1880-1932 by James Lewis
From the first organ in Los Angeles, built by Joseph Mayer for St. Vibiana’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, to the E.M. Skinner organ in First Congregational Church, this book chronicles organs by Bergstrom, E. & G.G. Hook, Jardine, Farrand & Votey, Hutchings, Kilgen, Austin, Estey, Möller, Casavant, Wangerin, Kimball, Skinner, Murray Harris, Welte, Aeolian, Morton, Wurlitzer, and Kimball in churches, schools, lodges, department stores, apartment houses, outdoor theatres, cemeteries, and cinemas. There is even a stoplist of a proposed Welte for the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. With more than 35 photographs of the period, the book is an enjoyable travelogue guiding the reader through one of America’s most fascinating cities.
OHS Press 2010;124 pages, softbound

Organ Historical Society

James Lewis, Organs in the Land of Sunshine: Fifty-Two Years of Organs in Los Angeles, 1880-1932

$24.95