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Martin Ott Pipe Organ Co. View Extant Instruments View Instruments

Distinction:

St. Louis, Missouri, from 1973.
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). —

Apprentice with Paul Ott, 1960-1965; with Holtkamp Organ Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, 1965-1966; passed master's exam in West Germany, 1969; with Bosch Organ Co. of West Germany and St. Louis, Missouri, 1969-1973; established Martin Ott Pipe Organ Co. of St. Louis, Missouri, 1973; active in 1995.

Staff: Terje A. L. Bolef; Earl Naylor.

Sources:

  • Correspondence of David H. Fox.
  • Uwe Pape, The Tracker Organ Revival in America, (Berlin: Pape Verlag, 1978), 426.
  • The American Organist April 1989 (New York: American Guild of Organists), 92.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on October 19, 2019.

Database Specs:

  • 113 Organs
  • 4 Divisions
  • 5 Consoles

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