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ALL THE STOPS
THE GLORIOUS PIPE ORGAN AND ITS MASTERS
CRAIG R.WHITNEY
©2003
Public Affairs™/Perseus Books Group |
The author as a foreign
reporter for the New York Times has been able to visit and play some of the
great organs of the world. This book talk about the history of pipe organs
through some of it main characters. E.M.Skinner and G.D.Harrison as organ
designers and builders and E.P.Biggs and Virgil Fox as performer. The book
goes in to details about the intrigue, politics, and rivalry that surrounded
the history of the organ during the 1900's |
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BEHOLD THE MIGHTY WURLITZER
THE HISTORY OF THE THEATRE PIPE ORGAN
JOHN W. LANDON
©1983
Greenwood Press /Congressional Informational Services |
This book cover the
history of the theatre pipe organ, It's beginning, the manufactures, some of
the theatres and major player with mini biographies. While the title leads
you to think it cover only the Wurlitzer. It does a good job of
covering most of the companies that were in business in the last 1800s
through the mid 1900s |
