August B. Pomplitz

Active: Unknown - Present Type: BuilderBuilder ID: 5043

Distinction:

Baltimore, Maryland, c.1850-c. 1862.

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). —

Born c. 1825 in Prussia, Germany; father of Louis and Herman Pomplitz; partner with Henry Rodewald in Pomplitz & Rodewald of Baltimore, Maryland, 1850-c. 1862; in Pomplitz Church Organ Co.; died February 3, 1877.

Sources:

  • Musical and Sewing Machine Gazette February 28, 1880, 51.
  • Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 180.

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Database Specs:

  • 15 Instruments
  • 3 Consoles
  • 0 Blowers

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