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John C. Swinford

Notes

2004-10-30/2019-10-02 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders by David H. Fox (Organ Historical Society, 1997). - Installed Kimball organ in San Francisco, California, 1924; operated his own firm in the San Jose area, California; in Redwood City, California, 1953, service; active 1963; retired [sometime between 1964 and 1972]. Swinford died in September, 1972. Staff: William N. Reid. Sources: The Diapason, September 1963, 19. Music* March 1973, (American Guild of Organists) 12. Louis J. Schoenstein, Memoirs of a San Francisco Organ Builder (San Francisco: Cue Publications, 1977) 1977. 298, 397. Elizabeth Towne Schmitt. *Renamed The American Organist begining with January 1979 issue. —Ed.

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