From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders,, rev. ed., by David H. Fox (Organ Historical Society, 1997). -

Born 1863; son of Charles F. Durner; with his father's firm in Quakertown, Pennsylvania; succeeded his father, 1914; died November 29 (December 4?) 1932; succeeded by Paul Fritzsche, who relocated the firm to Allentown, Pennsylvania, as Fritzsche Organ Co.

Staff: Harold T. Depue, Jacob Gerger.

Sources:

• The Diapason: January 1932, 22.


• Piano and Organ Purchaser-s Guide, Purchaser-s Guide to the Music Industries, (New York: Music Trades)


• Elizabeth Towne Schmitt.


• The Tracker: 8:4 (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1963), 11.


• The Tracker: 10:1, (1965), 1.


• The Tracker:32:1 (1987), 27.


• The Tracker:37:3 (1993), 22.


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