Materials for Church Organ Committees


These materials are for those who must make decisions regarding organ selection, repair, rebuilding, and fund raising, especially for worship spaces and institutions. Informational and motivational, these items equip a committee with solid help in making a good decision. Also, several items are helpful in the design of new or remodelling of existing worship space.


Ogasapian: Church Organs -- A Guide to SelectionOgasapian: Church Organs -- A Guide to SelectionThe most useful and comprehensive resource that an organ committee could hope to read

$6.95
Riedel: Acoustics in the Worship SpaceRiedel: Acoustics in the Worship SpaceYears of experience as an acoustician and church musician are applied to a practical method of determining and achieving acoustical design for the worship space. Included are: placement of participants, instruments; building materials and furnishings; geometric arrangement of walls, surfaces and spaces; reverberation; and public address systems.

$5.00
Acoustics for LiturgyAcoustics for LiturgyEssays by an acoustician, an architect, a musician, an organbuilder, a theologian and a pastor provide solid advice. Booklet

$6.00
Klotz: The Organ HandbookKlotz: The Organ HandbookThis book on the structure, design, maintenance, history, and function of the organ addresses construction of the organ, what the architect should know, how the pastor and congregation should plan, maintenance, service playing, a brief history, and notes for the organist. It provides a list of organ music, a bibliography, and a 14"-square fold-out of an organ’s internal mechanism. It is quite technical.

$17.00
Piltingsrud & Tancous: The Aging of Organ LeatherPiltingsrud & Tancous: The Aging of Organ LeatherHow to specify leather that will last for 40-60 years or more. Especially important information for the construction or repair, or rebuilding of an electropneumatic organ.

$9.95
Soderlund: A Guide to the Pipe OrganSoderlund: A Guide to the Pipe OrganEspecially useful to those who are trying to make sense of organ mechanisms, terms and jargon, such as "unification," "registration," "stops," "ranks." etc.

$6.00