2004-10-30/2019-10-28 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). - Established by Samuel R. Warren and sons Charles S. Warren and Samuel P. Warren in Montral, Quebec, Canada, 1879; relocated to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, c. 1880; associated with Mason & Risch [piano manufacturers] of Toronto, Ontario, Canada and Vocalion Co. of Worcester, Massachusetts, 1889; reed and pipe organs; firm sold to Dennis W. Karn as Karn-Warren Organ Co., 1896. Staff: Louis Mitchell. Sources: The American Musician; April 20, 1889, 28; Robert F. Gellerman, Gellerman-s International Reed Organ Atlas (Vestal, NY: The Vestal Press, 1985) , 141. David Junchen, Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ, vol. 1 (Pasadena: Showcase Publications, 1985),: 181. Kallmann et al., Encyclopedia of Music in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981), 985; Musical and Sewing Machine Gazette , February 28, 1880, 51. Barbara Owen, The Organ in New England (Raleigh: Sunbury Press, 1979), 415.
2015-10-27/2020-04-09 - For further information, see: Karn-Warren Organ Co.
2024-05-30/2024-05-30 - Also referred to as S. R. Warren & Co. -Paul R. Marchesano
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