Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ Cover Feature
Midmer-Losh, Inc., Merrick, Long Island, New York, Opus 5550 (1929–1932); Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey
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David E. Wallace & Co., Pipe Organ Builders, LLC, Gorham, Maine
Canadian Reformed Church, Ancaster, Ontario, Canada
Early in 2011, members of the Canadian Reformed Church in Ancaster, Ontario, contacted David E. Wallace & Co. Pipe Organ Builders about providing an instrument ideally suited for their worship space. When the building was constructed the plan had been to acquire a pipe organ at some point in the future.
An organbuilder’s early career: explorations Bedient Opus 1
My foray into organbuilding was the result of a series of accidental discoveries and explorations. Entering the University of Nebraska, fall semester, 1962, I was an electrical engineering student, also taking a one-hour piano class lesson at the School of Music. Subsequently, I became a piano major with a minor in industrial arts.
Creating a pipe organ: Artisans at work, Part 3
Editor’s note: the first two parts of this series are found in the August 2020 issue of The Diapason, pages 12–13, and in the October 2020 issue, pages 16–17.
Nunc dimittis: John J. Binsfield, III
John J. Binsfeld, III, died in Ocean City, New Jersey, on September 23. Born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, on June 4, 1944, he began as a young child studying keyboard with Lotta Young and Barbara Hartenbauer. While still a student at Pottstown High School, he became minister of music at Trinity Reformed Church where he served the congregation from April 1961 to June 1964.
