November 13, 2019: From Organ Database Builders editor Stephen Hall, November 10, 2019. —
Excerpt from Eugene McCracken, "Pennsylvania, the Keystone State", The Tracker 4:2:
At about the same time [late 1700s] another German organ builder, Alexander Schlottmann, was visiting in Philadelphia and overheard news of Tannenberg's forthcoming organ for a church in New Holland, Pennsylvania, He hired out to that gentleman, and later built organs by himself near Reading.
Source:
- Eugene M. McCracken, "Pennsylvania, the Keystone State", The Tracker 4:2 (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1960), 3.
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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 1757 in Hesse, Germany; immigrated to the United States, c. 1776; in Oley Furnace, Berks County, Pennsylvania; active in 1805.
Sources:
- Raymond J. Brunner.
- Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 71.
- Eugene M. McCracken, "Pennsylvania, the Keystone State", The Tracker 4:2 (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1960), 3.
- Barbara J. Owen and Thomas Cunningham, "New Revised Builders List" [continued], The Tracker: 9:3 (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1965), 14.
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