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Organ Building Books
By Howard Wyman

Damon Atchison asked about books on "Organ Building for Dummies".
Two books come to mind.

    The Art of Organ-Building
    Author:  George Ashdown Audsley
    Dover Publications
    ISBN 0-486-21315-3 and 0-486-21314-5

This book is in two volumes.  It was written I believe around the
early 1900's, but is very thorough and informative.

    Organ Building for Amateurs
    Author:  Mark Wicks
    Ward, Lock & Co.
    ISBN 0-913746-01-0

This book is a victorian era book but contains some interesting
information.  It can be ordered from

    The Organ Literature Foundation
    45 Norfolk Rd.
    Braintree, MA 02184-5918

    Telephone (617) 848-1388.

I ordered copies of both of these books on the Internet from
www.amazon.com.  I have forgotten how much the Wicks book cost but it
wasn't much.  Both volumes of the Audsley book cost a total of about
$35, not unreasonable I think.

The Audsley book in particular covers pipe building very thoroughly.

Howard Wyman
Valrico, Fl
hwyman@digital.net


(Message sent Wed 7 May 1997, 02:10:49 GMT, from time zone GMT.)

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