Greetings fellow home pipe organ owners. I am a third generation organ builder who has built small practice organs for private homes. That is my nitch in the market with an occasional larger project such as building a new theatre style organ (3/12) for a lodge hall in Berkeley, California, where the lodge members wish to use the special effects traps for their rites and services. While I mostly do church work I have had a great deal of fun with theatre organs from the mid-1950s until now.

Presently I coordinate the ATOS Pipe Organ Owners Group of which many illustrious members post to this new list. I also am the editor/writer of The Glue Pot, a biennial (unintentional) publication for the POOG. My TO experience was gained from the SF FOX, the Avenue Theatre, the NorCal Berkeley Community Theatre, the Towne Theatre in San Jose, the Lost Weekend Wurlitzer, the Marina Theatre Robert Morton in SF, the Stanford Theatre, and numerous other TO projects.

I hold a Master of Science degree in Industrial Design and have enough other various academic credentials that they allow me to teach Physics and Chemistry. Shortly I will achieve my doctorate. Truthfully, a pipe organ is the biggest Physics demonstration device ever conceived by man!

Glad to be with all of you,

Al Sefl
A San Francisco Native!


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