Pipe Organ Database

From Organ Database Builders editor Stephen Hall, October 18, 2019. —

Glenn White 1933-2014; "...partnership in Olympic Organ Builders with David Dahl, Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University and later with James Ludden. He [White] is responsible for designing and installing nineteen organs in PNW-including the one suspended in St. Paul's Episcopal Church on lower Queen Anne, featured during the Organ Historical Society Convention 2009."

Source:

• Obituary "Glenn White", (The Seattle Times December 7, 2014)

From Organ Database Builders editor Stephen Hall, October 18, 2019. —

Olympic Organ Builders was an importer and fabricator of mechanical action pipe organs in Seattle, Washington from 1962. The company built approximately 15 mechanical-action organs from 1967 through 1970. The company was an informal partnership formed in 1962 of David P Dahl and Glenn D White Jr to import and install organs from Detlef Kleuker and Werner Bosch (both in Germany). David designed the stop lists and Glenn did the mechanical installation and final voicing and tuning. They were joined by James R (Jim) Ludden in 1967 as designer-builder.

Source:

• Jim Ludden blog site, accessed August 23, 2015, https://sites.google.com/site/jimluddenweb/pipe-organs/olympic-organ-builders.

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

Established by Glen White in Seattle, Washington, c. 1968.

Source:

• Reprinted from church service bulletin of St. John's Episcopal Church in Kirkland, Washington, "Another Tracker-trek Westward"The Tracker 20:3 (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1976), 13.