2004-10-30/2019-04-29 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). - Born September 5, 1730 in Arfeld, Germany; active in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1750s-1760s; pipe organs, harpsichords; died October, 1767, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sources: Raymond J. Brunner, ‘-That Ingenious Business--: Pennsylvania German Organbuilders (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania German Society 1990), 59. Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 41, 49.
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