2004-10-30/2019-04-29 - Note from the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991; rev. ed., 1997, with updated information). - Active in Detroit, Michigan, by 1982; with Bahr & O-Donnell Pipe Organs (of Canton, Ohio?) by 1996. Sources: American Institute of Organbuilders (AIO), membership directories of 1982, 1989, and 1996.
2015-08-15/2019-04-29 - From the OHS Database Builders Listing editor, August 19, 2015. - Fredrick W. Bahr is a graduate of Andrews University with a degree in organ performance. He is head of Voicing and Tonal Director at Patrick J. Murphy. [2015] Source: Patrick J. Murphy website, accessed August 19, 2015, http://www.pjmorgans.com/about/staff/ .
2015-08-24/2019-04-29 - From the OHS Database Builders Listing editor, August 24, 2015. - Work History of Fredrick W. Bahr: 1978–1985 Berghaus Organ Company, Bellwood, Illinois - Apprentice in all phases of organbuilding, tuning and maintenance. 1985–1992 Lewis & Hitchcock, [then] Tysons Corner, Virginia [now Beltsville, Maryland] - Tuning and maintenance; installations; voicing. 1992–1995 Bahr & O-Donnell, Herndon, Virginia - Tuning and maintenance; freelance tonal finishing. 1995–2012 Kegg Pipe Organ Builders, Hartville, Ohio - Tonal Director; design and engineering. 2012–2015 Patrick J. Murphy & Associates, Stowe, Pennsylvania - Tonal Director. from September 2015 to unknown date. Parkey OrganBuilders, Duluth, Georgia - Tonal Manager. Source: Email from Fred Bahr to the editor, August 24, 2015.
2018-05-07/2019-04-29 - From the OHS Database Builders Listing editor, November 26, 2015. - Fredrick Bahr is the Shop Manager and Instructor of Organ Technology at the American Organ Institute at the University of Oklahoma, in Norman, Oklahoma. Bahr is a past President of the American Institute of Organbuilders, and a member of the American Guild of Organists, and the Organ Historical Society. His articles on a variety of organbuilding topics have been published in The American Organist, The Diapason, and The Journal of American Organbuilding. Source: American Organ Institute website, accessed November 26, 2017, http://www.ou.edu/content/aoi/about/directory/bahr-bio.html.
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