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Alan Miller Laufman (1935-2000) graduated from Arlington High School in 1953, and received a BA degree from Brandeis University in 1958 He was a member of the Organ Historical Society, and served as Board President from 1975-1979. For many years Alan wrote a column for The American Organist, and he chaired 3 Conventions for the Organ Historical Society. This small volume with many photos brings the instruments in Arlington, Massachusetts, to life.
The Boston Book Club, 2000, 56 pgs, hardcover

The Boston Organ Club

Pipe Organs of Arlington Massachusetts - by Alan M. Laufman

$29.95

Strengholt Publishing, 1996; 542 pgs, soft cover, in Dutch

Organ Historical Society

Orgels bij de omroep in Nederland - by Cor L. Doesburg

$75.00

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.

Organ Historical Society

Hook Organs in the State of Maine - by Barbara Owen

$24.95

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

Organ Historical Society

Murray M. Harris and Organ Building in Los Angeles, 1894-1913 - by David Lennox Smith (ed. Orpha Ochse)

$24.95

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.

Organ Historical Society

Pipe Organs of Northern California by James Lewis

$19.95

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

Organ Historical Society

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.

Organ Historical Society

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

$90.00

OHS Press, 2016; 276 pgs, softcover

Organ Historical Society

OHS Philadelphia 2016 Diamond Jubilee Commemorative Anthology - compiled by Rollin Smith

$34.95

This unique album is full of fascinating photographs which will be enjoyed by connoisseurs both of organs and of architecture; in contrast to the many volumes containing pictures of the organs only, the cases of major instruments are for the first time presented here in the larger spatial context of the vaulting and ceilings around them - after all, in many instances, they were created together in perfect harmony. The result is gripping pictures which make it possible to appreciate some amazing architectural achievements and instrument designs during the last 500 years, and which unfailingly fill the onlooker with awe and wonder.
Dr. J. Butz, 2015, 64 pgs, hard cover

Butz

Dem Himmel Nahe: Faszinierende Blicke auf Orgeln und Gewölbe (Looking up at Organs and Ceilings) - by Jenny Setchell

$46.98

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