Slideshow photos are a few of the pipe organs featured at the OHS 2024 Baltimore Convention.
Barbara Owen Fund

The Barbara Owen Fund for Education
Sponsored by the Organ Historical Society
Funds from this account will be used to provide free membership for anyone in high school or in a bachelor’s or master’s program studying the pipe organ. Doctoral students are not eligible. Digital memberships will be free for the duration of their studies with proper verification. Contributions to this fund help ensure a healthy, growing membership in the OHS.

2024 Pipe Organ Calendar
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OHS 2024 — Baltimore
Featuring never-before-published convention instrument photos from Baltimore and the surrounding region.
Photography by Len Levasseur
Instruments
- Andover Organ Company
- Thomas Hall/Hilborne L. Roosevelt/Schantz Organ Co.
- George Jardine & Son
- Casavant Frères
- Ganter and Schumacher
- J.H. & C.S. Odell
- Henry Niemann
- Johnson & Son/Andover Organ Company
- Skinner Organ Company
- Hilborne L. Roosevelt
OHS 2024 - Baltimore
OHS 2024

The James M. Weaver Prize
Exciting News about the James M. Weaver Prize in Organ Scholarship
A prize to celebrate and foster the scholarly research of pipe organs.

The Three Finalists
Elena Bacquiera, Andrew Johnson, Owen Sammons
A Breath of Fresh Air
Imagine watching a 200-year old organ, broken, tattered, and forgotten coming to life again. Imagine seeing craftsmen and historians working together on a neglected instrument, restoring it to glory piece by piece. Imagine gazing at its transformation into an historically accurate serviceable organ. Now, imagine hearing that instrument played for the first time in generations!
You can make these imaginations come true. Join us as we attempt to create A Breath of Fresh Air for the 1817 Hilbus Cabinet Organ.

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The Barbara Owen Fund
The Barbara Owen Fund for Education
Sponsored by the Organ Historical Society
Funds from this account will be used to provide free membership for anyone in high school or in a bachelor’s or master’s program studying the pipe organ. Doctoral students are not eligible. Digital memberships will be free for the duration of their studies with proper verification. Contributions to this fund help ensure a healthy, growing membership in the OHS.
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OHS Baltimore 2024
OHS 2024Convention Site
Baltimore is the place to be in July of 2024. The variety of historic instruments is astounding creating a sound palette sure to please even the most discerning appetite. And the food — well, you just have to be here to experience it for yourself.
New OHS Phone Number 484.488.PIPE (7473)
As of March 1, 2019 OHS has a brand new telephone number to reflect our residency in Pennsylvania. While the old number will work for a while, please take note:
484.488.PIPE (7473). Four foots and eight foots with no mixtures but it works!
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The Tracker
OHS publishes its journal four times a year. The Tracker includes news and articles about the organ and its history, organbuilders, exemplary organs, regional surveys of instruments, and the music played on the organ. The emphasis is on American organ topics of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, and there are occasional articles on European topics. Most issues run 48 pages with many illustrations and photographs.
Dear Friend of the Organ –
A New Opportunity
Think about the pleasure you will receive in offering an OHS membership to a friend or relative. You can share your love of the pipe organ and introduce someone else to the good works of the Society in educating, preserving and chronicling our rich organ heritage and culture. Memberships make splendid gifts. The recipient will receive a subscription to our quarterly magazine, The Tracker, a special gift and all the benefits of membership, including members’ prices on many items in the OHS Catalog.

The OHS Mission Statement
The Organ Historical Society celebrates, preserves, and studies the pipe organ in America in all its historic styles, through research, education, advocacy, and music.
The Organ Historical Society
330 North Spring Mill Road
Villanova, PA 19085 – 1737
(484) 488-PIPE (7473)
mail@organhistoricalsociety.org