Books About Cavaillé-Coll - Page 4

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.

The Sound of Pipe Organs, book and cd - by Michael McNeil

$49.99

Compiled by Allen Kinzey and Sand Lawn according to company records, this revised edition of the E.M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List also contains information on the Ernest M. Skinner & Son Company.
OHS Press, 1997; 258 pgs, softbound

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E. M. Skinner / Aeolian-Skinner Opus List, plus information on Ernest M. Skinner & Son Co. - by Allen Kinzey and Sand Lawn

$17.98

Reform in Organ Building: A Lecture Delivered to the Birmingham and Midland Music Guild, Fourth of February 1888 - Thomas Casson

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Reform in Organ Building: A Lecture Delivered to the Birmingham and Midland Music Guild, Fourth of February 1888 - Thomas Casson

$8.50

By Louis Luberoff - Introduction by Bynum Petty. Louis Luberoff was M.P. Möller’s East Coast sales representative and super salesman. In the late 1920s, he developed a systematic plan to monopolize American organbuilding through a large holding company. His notebook, now in the American Organ Archives, contains his candid, informed assessment of the organ industry with an evaluation and recommendation of 44 companies and a complete financial report for each. A fascinating glimpse into the industry at its height.
OHS Press, 2010; 110 pgs, softbound

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The Organ Industry Takeover: A Scheme to Monopolize American Organbuilding - by Louis Luberoff (ed. by Bynum Petty),

$34.99

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

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

$24.95

Church Organs: A Guide to Selection - by John K. Ogasapian

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Church Organs: A Guide to Selection - by John K. Ogasapian

$12.95

302 pages, large format, hardbound, published by the Friends of the Wanamaker Organ.

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Music in the Marketplace: The Wanamaker Organ - by Ray Biswanger (Friends of the Wanamaker Organ)

$35.00

American millionaire Edward F. Searles will forever be remembered for his obsession with pipe organs. His most famous project was the construction of the magnificent Methuen Memorial Music Hall that houses the historic 1863 Walcker organ, originally installed in the Boston Music Hall. Searles had six other organs built for his homes, and one for his own organ factory. At the age of 46, Searles, then an interior decorator, married the fabulously wealthy widow of railroad magnate Mark Hopkins, 22 years his senior. Her death three years later left Searles with a $30-million fortune. This is the story of his lifetime involvement with the organ, illustrated with magnificent photographs of his many instruments.
OHS Press, 2010, 104 pgs, paperback

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Mr. Searles and the Organ - by James Lewis

$22.95

This fascinating book traces the evolution of the Los Angeles company through the demise of the Murray M. Harris Company, its successor the Los Angeles Art Organ Company, and then its short-lived successor, the Electrolian Company. Letters to and from the major stock holder in the company, Eben Smith, reveal the financial debacle of building the largest organ in the world, the 1904 St. Louis Louisiana Purchase Exposition organ—the nucleus of the famous Wanamaker organ,—and the on-going problems of obtaining contracts and keeping the firm out of bankruptcy.
OHS Press

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The Los Angeles Art Organ Company - by James Lewis

$19.95

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