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 c. 1893; organ architect, author, and consultant in Chicago, Illinois; died 11 Oct. 1980. Sources: Boston Organ Club Newsletter, 127:4. Social Security Death Index. Elizabeth Towne Schmitt.
2016-03-17/2019-02-11 - Note from the Organ Database Builders editor Stephen Hall, June 20, 2017. - William H. Barnes was the author of The Contemporary American Organ, a popular text on American pipe organbuilding which went through several printings. He was a proponent of the eclectic electro-pneumatic style organ and was not enthused by the return to the "Bach organ" movement which gradually took hold in the 1960s and continued through the 1970s.
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