PORTSMOUTH – Straw­bery Banke Muse­um in Decem­ber de-acces­sioned an antique cab­i­net organ and trans­ferred the rare musi­cal instru­ment to the col­lec­tion of the Organ His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety. Fol­low­ing ini­tial dis­cus­sions between the muse­um and soci­ety in July, Bill…

Our 2018 Pipe Organ Cal­en­dar is now avail­able! The OHS 2018 Cal­en­dar cel­e­brates the 63rd Annu­al Con­ven­tion of the OHS – Rochester, New York, July 29 to August 3, 2018 – show­cas­ing one of the most diverse col­lec­tions of Amer­i­can and Euro­pean organs from the 18th to…

Dear Friends. They arrived by train from Modesto, Cal­i­for­nia and Northamp­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts — by plane from Ontario, Hawaii, Aus­tralia, and Italy — and from Venice, Flori­da, Port­land, Ore­gon, Nashua, New Hamp­shire, from a host of states along all our bor­ders, and in…

This is the last col­umn I will write as Chair, and by the time it appears in print, a new Board of Direc­tors will have tak­en office. In my pre­vi­ous col­umn, I reflect­ed on the sig­nif­i­cance the OHS has had in my musi­cal growth over the eight years that I have been an…

The Organ His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety (found­ed 1956) seeks a Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer to assume office July 1, 2018. Under the CEO’s inno­v­a­tive lead­er­ship, OHS, the pre­mier nation­al orga­ni­za­tion ded­i­cat­ed to the pipe organ, aspires to bring trans­for­ma­tion­al change to the pipe…

It will soon be 20 years since The Aeo­lian Pipe Organ and Its Music was pub­lished by the Organ His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety. This land­mark vol­ume has been out of print for so long that copies now sell for more than $500. A sec­ond edi­tion, revised and great­ly expand­ed, is now in…

Begin­ning the week of Octo­ber 16, 2017, the OHS Head­quar­ters and the Organ His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety Library and Archives will be moved to their new home at Stoneleigh Estate: Organ His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety 330 North Spring Mill Road Vil­lano­va, PA 19085 – 1737   Con­tact Info…

Wel­come to the new home of the Organ His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety. Please feel free to look around. If you see any­thing that might need our atten­tion, please email us at neopress@​organhistoricalsociety.​org. We’d love to hear from you!