The Curt Sachs Award 1994

Barbara Owen

The Board of Governors of the American Musical Instrument Society designated Barbara Owen the recipient of the Curt Sachs Award for the year 1994 in recognition of her distinguished achievements as an eminent historian, sensitive restorer, organ design and preservation consultant, musician and editor, founding member of the Organ Historical Society, and tireless proponent of pipe organs and organ music; and in appreciation of her professional leadership and influential and inspiring advocacy of American organs and organ builders in particular.