The following books and resources are things that have found interesting and useful in our work on organs.

Reference Books on Organ Design

Audsley, George Ashdown.  The Art of Organ-Building, 2 volumes.  New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1965.

Audsley, George Ashdown.  The Organ of the Twentieth Century.  New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1970.

Irwin, Stevens.  Dictionary of Pipe Organ Stops, 2nd edition.  New York: Schirmer Books, 1983.

Klotz, Hans. The Organ Handbook, 7th edition. Translated by Gerhardt Krapf. St. Louis: Concordia, 1969.

Ogasapian, John K. Church Organs - A Guide to Selection and Purchase.  Published by The American Guild of Organists and The Organ Historical Society, 1990.

Sonnaillon, Bernard.  King of Instruments: A History of the Organ.  New York: Rizzoli, 1985.

Sumner, William Leslie.  The Organ - Its Evolution, Principles of Construction and Use.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978.

Historical Styles and Specific Instruments

Douglass, Fenner.  Cavaillé-Coll and the French Romantic Tradition.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

Freeman, Andrew and John Rowntree.  Father Smith: Otherwise Bernard Schmidt, being an Account of a Seventeenth Century Organ Maker.  Oxford: Positif Press, 1977.

Owen, Barbara.  The Mormon Tabernacle Organ: An American Classic.  Salt Lake City: Paragon Press, 1990.

Other Related Topics

Helmholtz, Hermann.  On the Sensations of Tone.  Translated by Alexander J. Ellis.  New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1954.