Category:Bohn organs

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• Douglas Earl Bush; Richard Kassel. (2006) "1900 to the Present" in The Organ: An Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of keyboard instruments (Garland reference library of the humanities), Vol. 3, Psychology Press, p. 79 ISBN: 978-0-415-94174-7.
  "​J. Edmundo Bohn (1900-1968), who directed the construction of over fifty pipe organs, was probably Brazil's most prolific native builder. Of German descent, Bohn acquired his training by participating in an installation by Rieger. He built his first organ in 1932 in Pareci, Rio Grande do Sul, and later opened a factory in nearby Novo Hamburgo. The Bohn Company was the major producer of organs and harmoniums in Brazil for decades. The earlier Bohn organs were tubular-pneumatic; later they built electro-pneumatic organs. A highly unified two- or three-rank organ that Bohn marketed widely was referred to as the Órgão Compacto ("Compact Organ"). He also built several two-manual and pedal harmoniums; one sits in the small concert hall of the Federal University, Pôrto Alegre. The original company has been taken over by an independent firm but continues to service pipe organs, manufacture harmoniums, and represent a digital organ company. "