From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders by David H. Fox (Organ Historical Society, 1997). -

Member of Dutch organbuilding family; established Standaart Organ Co. of Suffolk, Virginia.

Sources:

• The Diapason June, 1950, 10.


• The Diapason September 1950, 31.


• The Diapason June 1953, 1.

From OHS Database Builders editor, Stephen Hall, April 19, 2016 —

Adrian V. Standaart (Dutch Adrianus Willem Jacobus Standaart Jr) was born on September 10, 1907 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He was the son of Adrianus Willem Jacobus Standaart, an organbuilder who had established a firm in Rotterdam in 1904. The firm relocated to Schiedem, the Netherlands, in 1923; that was where the junior Standaart trained and worked.¹

In 1946, Standardt immigrated to the United States, and settled in Suffolk, Virginia. He established the Standaart Organ Co. there.² In 1950, he acquired the A. Gottfried firm and Anton Gottfried became a member of his staff despite being in his eighties at the time.³ The firm experienced financial problems and was forced into receivership in 1953.⁴ Standaart died on August 23, 1976 in Salem, North Carolina at age 68.⁵

Sources:

1. Geert Jan Pottjewijd, Standaart Organs (Standaart-orgels.nl) Dutch website. Accessed using Google translation April 19, 2016.


2. Pottjewijd, Standaart Organs.


3. David Fox, A Guide to North American Organbuilders (Organ Historical Society, 1991)


4. Charles Callahan, The American Classic Organ: A History in Letters (Organ Historical Society, 1990), Footnote to Letter 241, p354.


5. Pottjewijd, Standaart Organs.