Organs by Location - Page 3

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

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

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

$34.95

Schoenstein and Company Organs - by Orpha Ochse

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Schoenstein and Company Organs - by Orpha Ochse

$35.99

Pronkjuwelen in Stad en Ommeland: The Historic Organs of the Province of Groningen

Boeijenga

Pronkjuwelen in Stad en Ommeland: The Historic Organs of the Province of Groningen

$125.00

Stephen J. Schnurr, Jr. and Dennis E. Northway, Pipe Organs of Chicago, Volume 2

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Stephen J. Schnurr, Jr. and Dennis E. Northway, Pipe Organs of Chicago, Volume 2

$65.00

The Organ in Reading Town Hall by Philip Bowcock and Peter Mawr

Berkshire Organists' Association

The Organ in Reading Town Hall by Philip Bowcock and Peter Mawr

$55.95

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

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

$24.95