Frank H. Niemann

Active: 1899 - 1908 Type: Builder

Distinction:

Baltimore, Maryland, 1899-1908.

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). —

Son of Henry Niemann; in father's firm of Baltimore, Maryland; succeeded his father, 1899; closed firm c. 1908; with Welte firm, assistant superintendent, c. 1925; representative of W.W. Kimball Co. of Chicago, Illinois, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1931.

Patent #1,619,532; March 1, 1927; tremolo.

Sources:

  • The Diapason, March 1926, 8.

  • The Diapason, January 1931, 40.

  • Thomas S. Eader, "The Baltimore Builders" [third installment] The Tracker, 3:1 (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1958), 3.

  • [Information taken from the text of the United States patent listed above.]

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  • 1 Consoles
  • 0 Blowers

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