SCHOLAR PARTICIPATION During the final quarter of 1999, the producers began the collaboration process with scholar Orpha Ochse and historian Charles Swisher (see bios below), to refine a final script for the documentary. The producers began research for this project in November of 1998. Orpha Ochse, Ph.D., a professor of music history at Whittier College has written a book about the history of the Austin Organ company (builders of the Exposition Organ) called Austin Organs. Ms. Ochse received her doctorate degree from the Eastman School of Music and has studied at USC, Haarlem (Holland) and the University of Florence. She has received research grants from the American Philosophical Society, American Institute of Organbuilders and the San Francisco Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. Ms. Ochse has also written the books The History of the Organ in the United States, Fundamentals of Music Theory, and Organists and Organ playing in the Nineteenth-Century France and Belgium among others. Charles Swisher, a senior audio and acoustical consultant, spearheaded the Citizens Committee to Save San Francisco's Municipal Organ during the mid-1980's. He was also instrumental in securing funds to save and repair the damaged organ following the Loma-Prieta quake. Mr. Swisher has lead sound design and recording projects for Grace Cathedral, Virgil Fox/Winterland, Concord Pavilion, San Francisco Opera and Ballet, Davies Symphony Hall, Oakland and Denver Symphony Orchestras, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He is Executive Director of the American Pipe Organ Museum, vice-president of the Atlantic City Convention Hall Organ Society and a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society.