From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). -

Ira Bassett was the father of Frederick W. Bassett. He was active in Chicago, Illinois, in 1868, where he operated a service firm. He had previously built three organs in Barre, Vermont around 1860.

Patients held:

Patent #336,982; 2 Mar. 1886; pneumatic action

Patent #387,846; 14 Aug. 1888; pneumatic action

Patent #478,552; 12 Jul. 1892; tremolo.

Sources:

• Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 143, 306.


• Musical and Sewing Machine Gazette 28 Feb. 1880, 51.


• John Panning.


• Stopt Diapason The Chicago-Midwest Chapter of the Organ Historical Society, Hoffman Estates, IL. #25.


• Tracker, 1:2, 8.