Charles Brenton Fisk

Active: 1951 - 1983 Type: Builder

Distinction:

Redwood City, California, 1951-1953; Cleveland, Ohio, 1953-1955; Methuen, Massachusetts, 1955; Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1961-1983.

Database Manager on October 30th, 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 February 1, 1925 in Washington, DC; in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1930s; graduate of Cambridge School of Weston, Massachusetts, 1942; at Los Alamos Bomb Physics Division in World War II; graduate of Harvard College; physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory; at Stanford University, 1950; organ work with <a href="BuilderDetails.php?BuilderID=6053"
target="BuilderWindow">John Swinford of Redwood City, California; with <a href="BuilderDetails.php?BuilderID=2872"
target="BuilderWindow">Walter Holtkamp, Sr. of Cleveland, Ohio, 1953-1955; partner in <a href="BuilderDetails.php?BuilderID=125"
target="BuilderWindow">Andover Organ Co. of Methuen, Massachusetts, 1955; established <a href="BuilderDetails.php?BuilderID=992"
target="BuilderWindow">C. B. Fisk in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1961; died December 16, 1983 in
Boston, Massachusetts.

Sources:

  • The Diapason: April 1984, 4.

  • Uwe Pape, The Tracker Organ Revival in America, (Berlin: Pape Verlag, 1978), 416.


Database Manager on August 16th, 2015:

For further information on the firm, see: <a href="BuilderDetails.php?BuilderID=992"
target="BuilderWindow">C.B. Fisk, Inc.

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Database Manager on November 21st, 2015:

External link: C. B. Fisk Organbuilders.

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Fisk voicing one of his instruments.
Fisk voicing one of his instruments.Photograph by C.B. Fisk, submitted by John Roper approx. ca. 1970s
Database Specs:
  • 2 Instruments
  • 0 Consoles
  • 0 Blowers

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