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 Louis Maas in Los Angeles, California, 1922; active in 1937; discontinued pipe organ production in favor of chimes; succeeded by Maas-Rowe Electromusic Corp., 1947.

Staff: Carl Riedler. [Archie March and Val Holzinger?]

Sources:

• The Diapason March 1955, 36.
• David L. Junchen, Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ, vol. 1 (Pasadena: Showcase Publications, 1985), 286.

*Names in brackets added to the database by previous editor, Elizabeth Towne Schmitt. Her source is not given, presumed to be either personal knowledge or information supplied to her by an unnamed person. —Ed.