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David Tannenberg

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2004-10-30/2019-04-29 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). - Born March 21, 1728 in Berthelsdorf, Saxony, Germany; father of Johann D. Tannenberg, stepfather of John Hall; in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, May 17, 1749; joiner [furniture craftsman]; with John Clemm, 1757; warden of Nazareth Moravian community, 1762; active in Lititz, Pennsylvania, August 16, 1765; died in fall from organ in York, Pennsylvania, May 18, 1804. Sources: William Armstrong, Organs for America: The Life and Work of David Tannenberg, (Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1967). Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 51.  

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