[ Ref. http://reedsoc.org/Gellerman  and
 [ http://reedsoc.org/Gellerman/seite8.htm 

Welcome to the website of Robert F. Gellerman's Homepage

With profound sadness we have to inform you of the sudden death of
Mr. Gellerman on Monday June 13th 2011.

"Fritz" Gellerman's interest in reed organs began with an antiquing
expedition which produced a Beatty "Golden Tongue" organ with
twenty-one stops and a walnut case badly in need of restoration.
Finding a lack of readily available information on the origins of
these instruments, he began to research the historical materials
stored in the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution and
the Patent Office in Washington, D. C. The books listed above were
the eventual result.

Mr. Gellerman was born in Cloquet, Minnesota, in 1928, attended schools
there and was graduated from the University of Minnesota in Electrical
Engineering in 1956.  Since that time in his work as a communications
engineer he has traveled extensively, mostly in Latin America, and
lived for a number of years in El Salvador, Panama, Puerto Rico and the
Bahamas.  After his retirement he moved to Daytona Beach, Florida, later
to Gainesville.

His sudden death of natural causes in June of 2011 was a shock to the
reed organ world, and he will be sorely missed.