Pipe Organ Database

Note from the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox ( Richmond, Va., Organ Historical Society, 1991; rev. ed., 1997, with updated information). Edited for the revised OHS Online Database website, 2017. -

German; active in St. Louis, Missouri, 1869-1890, organbuilder, undertaker.

Sources:

• Martin Kares, The German Element in American Organbuilding, 1700-1900 (dissertation, Marburg 1990)
• Musical and Sewing Machine Gazette, 28 Feb. 1880:51
• Elizabeth Towne Schmitt.
• The Tracker (Richmond, Va., Organ Historical Society, 1965) 9:2, 11.
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Note from the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox ( Richmond, Va., Organ Historical Society, 1991). Edited for the revised OHS Online Database website, 2017. -

German; active in St. Louis, Missouri, 1873. (Probably same as Frederick K. Hertel)

Source:

• Martin Kares, The German Element in American Organbuilding, 1700-1900 (dissertation, Marburg 1990)
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