Hello, friends.
Thank you for your warm and friendly reception.
Let's come to the problem.
It is difficult to argue with the statement, that organ building can't be learned from books, pictures and theories. Organ building is quite a practical craft, it is neither mathematics, nor theoretical physics, which can be studied by reading correspondent literature. It needs practical training and skill.
Now, few words about myself and my interest to the problem.
I live in Russia, Moscow. I am not a musician, nor am I an instrument-maker (I don't know, how this profession is properly called in English). I am a physicist by profession. Still I love classical music (not all of it, of course) and organ. The number of pipe organs here in Russia is laughable and organ firms are absent at all. Besides I don't plan to become an organ master, to make it my second profession in the nearest perspective. However, I don't know whether I occupy this business seriously in far future, everything can take place. You advised me to become an apprentice of an organ master. Here it is difficult and lacks sense.
One more thing.
A book can't replace real live practice, I understand this. However a clever book is a good generalization of the experience, stored by generations of organ builders and masters. A good book truthfully states the matter, it describes in details all the problems and nuances, the master meets in his trade. If you have some imagination and technical education you can conceive the instrument, its inner structure and its manufacture process in detail. By taking some efforts, I'm sure you can even reproduce the results, described in the book (although it is not in my plans).
In Russia it is difficult to get such literature. The only sources are internet markets and shops (such as amazon or ebay). And no warranty that the book is really good (anything you know of the book is its title and the name of the author). Otherwise you should make a tour to Europe or America and look for this literature in local book stores.
That's why I'm asking you for good PDF scans of worthy paper books.
I'm not asking for colorful popular internet sites, devoted to the organ. I've already grown up from this level. All, I'm looking for, are good professional books, organ builders and their apprentices use in their daily work, books which help them study their craft. Perhaps if I like the books I shall acquire some of them via Internet and post.
Recently I have got several PDF copies of fine organ building books in German (I can enumerate them all, if you want). "Orgelkunde Handbuch" was among them. This book really made good appearance at me after smart look: this three-volume edition is written with truly German conscientiousness, pedantry and punctiliousness.
Still all of these books are written in the middle of the 20'th century and describe primarily (neo)-baroque organ. This was the time of Organ Revival when romantic organ was completely rejected, declared inconsistent etc. Besides many contemporary scholars are assured that the ideas of the true baroque organ were distorted during that time and that organs of 50'th - 60'th sufficiently differ from the organs of XVII - XVIII centuries.
So, I’d like to enlarge my small collection of organ books, so that different styles and epochs were represented in it. Perhaps, somebody of you possesses some books, devoted to romantic organ building, written in the 19’th century or present days. I’ll be very glad to get them in electronic form. Perhaps, you have some scans of ancient treatises, such as Dom Bedos or Praetorius. So, I’ll be happy to obtain any good serious literature in different languages (German, French, and English), that describes various styles of organ building (not only neo-baroque) in detail.
Please, forgive my bad English. I’m waiting impatiently for your replies.