Pipe Organ Database

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Edwin Alan Ohl (Pipe Organs) View Extant Instruments View Instruments

Distinction:

Pennsylvania, from 1964.
Classification: Builder

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October 30, 2004:

From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). —

Born August 1, 1940 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania; service apprentice and assistant 1955-1958; graduate Philadelphia Music Academy, 1962; established firm in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, 1964; relocated to Warrington, Pennsylvania, 1975; relocated home and shop to Blooming Glen, Pennsylvania, 1976; in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, by 1989. Active 1992.

Sources:

  • Sources:

    • Organ Handbook 1989 (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society), 6.
    • Uwe Pape, The Tracker Organ Revival in America, (Berlin: Pape Verlag, 1978), 426.

    We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on October 24, 2019.

Database Specs:

  • 8 Organs
  • 1 Divisions
  • 1 Consoles

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