Books About Cavaillé-Coll - Page 2

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