The OHS Press announces the release of Organbuilding Along the Erie and Chenango Canals: Alvinza and George N. Andrews of Utica, New York by OHS Archivist Emeritus, Stephen L. Pinel. The 320-page volume opens a new series titled OHS Monographs in American Organ History.
The Andrews story, spanning nearly 100 years, begins in Waterville, New York in 1834, when Alvinza Andrews began building organs. It covers the firm’s work in Utica after 1852 along the Erie Canal, and concludes in Oakland, California, where the firm relocated in 1886.
Included are 53 photographs, five tables, lists of the firm’s work, and a lengthy appendix featuring facsimiles of two nineteenth-century promotional catalogs. Scot L. Huntington, an organbuilder in Stonington, Connecticut (and currently president of the Organ Historical Society), supplied much technical data for the study. Graphic designer Len Levasseur of Lawrence, Massachusetts did the layout for the book.
Founded in 2004, the OHS Press was established by the National Council of the OHS to publish books and monographs on subjects pertaining to the organ. Rollin Smith is director of publications.
Visit www.organsociety.org for more information about the press, to submit a manuscript for consideration, or to order the press’s publications.
