A business survey of the American pipe organ industry, 1929.

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A business survey of the American pipe organ industry, 1929.

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Contains a series of reports on most major American pipe organ firms of the time, including frank and outspoken comments about the quality of the firm's product, finances and leadership. Included are the Aeolian Company; Austin Organ Company, Buhl Organ Company, Casavant Frères Limitée, Estey Organ Company, Frazee Organ Company, Hinners Organ Company, Hook & Hastings Co., Geo. Kilgen & Son, Inc., W.W. Kimball Co., Midmer-Losh Organ Company, Henry Pilcher's Sons, Skinner Organ Company, Wangerin Organ Co., and the Wicks Organ Co., among many others. Also included in the box are a series of financial reports from the Austin Organ Company, a few minor personal items, and a published copy of The American Organist for April, 1924, containing an article "Selling" organs by Luberoff on pps. 185-191.

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Möller, Mathias Peter, 1854-1937.

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Henry Pilcher's Sons

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Aeolian Organ Company

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Luberoff, Louis, b. 1895.

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Louis Luberoff was born of Russian parentage on September 4, 1895. As he reached adulthood, he worked first for Henry Pilcher's Sons in St. Louis, Missouri, and later was the Philadelphia representative for M.P. Möller, pipe organ builders of Hagerstown, Maryland. Following the Great Depression, he left the organ trade and worked in other professions. The date and place of his death is unknown. He researched and wrote this survey of the organ trade in 1929, presumably with the notion that Mathi...

Geo Kilgen & Son, Inc.

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Hook & Hastings Co.

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Wangerin Organ Co.

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Casavant frères limitée

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Buhl Organ Company

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Frazee Organ Company

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Skinner Organ Company

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Estey Organ Company

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Contains Estey Organ Company shop orders with pipe scales, stop lists, console and blower specifications and voicing instructions. From the description of Estey Organ Company shop orders. (Organ Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 728146832 ...

Midmer-Losh Organ Company

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Wicks Organ Co.

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Hinners Organ Company

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Austin Organ Company

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The Austin Organ Company was founded by brothers John Turnell Austin and Basil G, Austin in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1899. The firm was liquidated on June 12, 1935, and was reorganized as Austin Organs, Inc. in January, 1937. The firm closed in 2005. From the description of A collection of news clippings about the Austin Organ Company and Austin Organs, Inc., ca. 1935-2000. (Organ Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 607557384 ...

M.P. Möller

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