Pipe Organ Database

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Distinction:

Crum Lynne, Pennsylvania, ca. 1920, 1924-1981, Philadelphia, 1921–1924.
Classification: Undetermined

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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). —

Established by A. R. Payne and Gustav Kloehs in Crum Lynne, Pennsylvania, c. 1920; relocated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1921; relocated back to Crum Lynne, 1924; firm sold to Robert G. Lent, 1981.

Staff: J. Fred Ad; A. G. Barton; Conrad C. Boyer; O. W. Ketcham; Robert G. Lent; Dominick Revelas.

Sources:

  • The Diapason, March 1924, 15.
  • The Diapason, November 1944, 23.
  • David Junchen, Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ, Vol. 2 (Pasadena: Showcase Publications, 1990), 643.
  • Robert G. Lent.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on October 09, 2019.

Database Specs:

  • 3 Organs
  • 0 Divisions
  • 0 Consoles