2004-10-30/2019-04-29 - Note from the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Organ Historical Society, 1991). Edited for the revised OHS Online Database website, 2017. - Bynum Petty was born in 1943; He was a partner with Bruce Madden in Petty-Madden of Hopewell, New Jersey, 1977; the firm was active in 1990. Sources: American Institute of Organbuilders (AIO): 1989 membership roll. Letter to David H. Fox. Bynum Petty. Stephen Pinel.
2018-05-07/2019-04-29 - From the OHS Online Organ Database, Builders Listing editor Stephen Hall, February 16, 2017. - Bynum Petty is a founding director of Petty-Madden Organbuilders. Trained as a musicologist, he spent much of his early career studying the historic organs of America, England and Europe. He has read papers at the annual conventions of the National Teachers of Music Association, the American Guild of Organists and the American Institute of Organbuilders and at various university organ conferences. He has served as consultant and artistic advisor to major academic institutions including the Lawrenceville School, Rutgers University and Colorado State University. Additionally, he is a regular contributor of articles, essays, and reviews that appear in The American Organist, The Tracker and the Journal of American Organbuilding. As an organ historian, he has written several books on organ building in America. His most recent publications are An Organ a Day: the Enterprising Spirit of M.P. Möller (2013) and Henry Pilcher-s Sons: Opus List and Historical Sketch (2014). In 2010, Bynum Petty was appointed Archivist of the Organ Historical Society, in which position he manages the O.H.S. Library & Archives in Princeton, New Jersey, the largest and most comprehensive organ research library in the world. Source: Professional biography provided by Bynum Petty at the request of the editor.
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