2004-10-30/2019-11-07 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). — Born April 17, 1826 in Ealing, England; in Australia, 1849; carpenter in Sidney, Australia; in California, 1856; in Salt Lake City, Utah, 1857; active in 1860s; died 1914. Staff: David Anderson; Niels Johnson; Shure Olsen; William Pinney; John Sandberg; Frank Woods. Sources: Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 189. Barbara Owen. The American Organist December 1988 (New York: American Guild of Organists), 56.
2018-05-07/2020-04-09 - From the Organ Historical Society Pipe Organ Database - Joseph Ridges built the original organ in the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah. The organ was dispersed, but the original case and 32-foot, round, wooden facade pipes still form the central portion of the case. See entry: Joseph Ridges - Mormon Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Utah
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