From Organ Database Builders editor Stephen Hall, August 26, 2019. —

Charles W. Gibson Co. was incorporated as C.W. Gibson, Inc., Pipe Organ Specialties in 1987. The firm moved to Monroeville, New Jersey, in 1989 (691 Willow Grove Rd., Monroeville, NJ 08343-4529). The company relocated to 788 Piney Hollow Rd., Hammonton, New Jersey 08037, in July, 2018, due to a change in ownership.

Staff:

Steve Jones, President

Charles Gibson, Vice President

Joyce Gibson, Theresa Jones

Source:

• Email from Chuck Gibson, August 25, 2019.

 
 

Note from the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Organ Historical Society, 1991; rev. ed., 1997, with updated information). Edited for the revised OHS Online Database website, 2017. -

The Charles W. Gibson Co. was in Pennsauken, New Jersey, and actively purchased organ supplies, c. 1980s. The firm was a representative of the Wicks Pipe Organ Co. of Highland, Illinois, for eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey in 1991. The firm relocated to Monroeville, New Jersey in 1995. The firm was also known as Pipe Organ Specialties.

Staff: Peter van der Spek; Samuel S. Whitcraft, Jr.

Sources:

• A mailing list of purchasers of organ supplies compiled by several prominent firms. The entries that appear in this list are of undetermined date and may not necessarily represent organbuilders.


• The American Organist Aug. 1991:61.