2004-10-30/2019-04-29 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders by David H. Fox (Organ Historical Society, 1997) - Active as an organ builder in Troy, New York, 1846-1851; made pianos thereafter. Sources: Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 169. The Tracker, 9:2 (Spring, 1965), 9.
2016-03-08/2019-02-11 - From the OHS PC Database Builders editor - Augustus Backus was active as an organ builder in Troy, New York, from 1846 until 1851; he made pianos thereafter. Giles Beach was his apprentice in 1844.1 Source: 1. Orpha Ochse. The History of the Organ in the United States (Indiana University Press, 1975) p58.
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