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

Baltimore, Maryland; established 1850 by August Pomplitz; firm closed 1887.

Staff: Louis Pomplitz; John W. Otto.

Sources:

• Martin Kares, The German Element in American Organbuilding, 1700-1900 (dissertation, Marburg 1990).


• Martin Kares, "Baltimore: Center of German-American Organbuilding", The Tracker 39:3 (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1995), 14.