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

Born 1757 in Hesse, Germany; immigrated to the United States, c. 1776; in Oley Furnace, Berks County, Pennsylvania; active in 1805.

Sources:

• Raymond J. Brunner.


• Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 71.


• Eugene M. McCracken, "Pennsylvania, the Keystone State", The Tracker 4:2 (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1960), 3.


• Barbara J. Owen and Thomas Cunningham, "New Revised Builders List" [continued], The Tracker: 9:3 (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1965), 14.

From Organ Database Builders editor Stephen Hall, November 10, 2019. —

Excerpt from Eugene McCracken, "Pennsylvania, the Keystone State", The Tracker 4:2:

At about the same time [late 1700s] another German organ builder, Alexander Schlottmann, was visiting in Philadelphia and overheard news of Tannenberg's forthcoming organ for a church in New Holland, Pennsylvania, He hired out to that gentleman, and later built organs by himself near Reading.

Source:

• Eugene M. McCracken, "Pennsylvania, the Keystone State", The Tracker 4:2 (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1960), 3.