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Richard Bryant Parsons

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2004-10-30/2019-10-22 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). — Born 1953 in Rochester, New York; son of Bryant Gideon Parsons, Jr.; acquired business of father with brother Calvin Glenn Parsons as Parsons Organ Co. of Penfield, New York, 1979; active in 1989. Sources: American Institute of Organbuilders (AIO): 1989 membership directory. Correspondence of David H. Fox.

2015-11-19/2019-10-22 - From Organ Database Builders editor Stephen Hall, October 22, 2019. — Bryant Parsons Jr.'s two sons, Richard and Calvin, apprenticed with the firm for many years prior to receiving their degrees in electronics. They purchased the firm in 1979, upon their father's retirement. The sons relocated to new and larger facilities in Canandaigua, New York, in 1986. Richard Parsons is President of the reorganized Parsons Organ. Source: Parsons Organ Co. website, accessed Nov 19, 2015, http://www.parsonsorgans.com/our-history/.

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