The Hellmuth Wolff Organ Collection consists primarily of organ plans, pamphlets, photographs, books and periodicals, and personal correspondence. The majority of these documents are associated with or represent one of the fifty organs in Wolff’s opus. In addition to depicting Wolff’s instruments, the collection of organ plans also includes Wolff’s drawings for proposed but not-constructed organs, plans by other organ builders, and plans drawn by Wolff that are based on historical models and treatises by writers such as Dom Bédos. Of the photographs, most are associated with specific Wolff organ projects and represent a span date of the late 1960s to the early 2000s. Also in the photograph collection are images of historical organs in Europe, which Wolff presumably used in modelling and designing several of his instruments, as well as images associated with other organ projects by builders such as Casavant Frères, Karl Wilhelm, and Rieger, all of whom Wolff worked with before establishing his own workshop in Laval. The collection of pamphlets includes programs, program notes, and concert series information for several of the Recitals and concerts performed on Wolff’s instruments. Of the periodicals and books, titles include The American Organist, Choir & Organ, and Orgelforum. Also in the collection are several three-dimensional models, or maquettes, of Wolff organs.

This series includes large-scale drawings, preliminary sketches, and general plans of various parts of the organ, such as the buffet, console, keyboards, and windchest. This series is divided into three subseries: organs with opus number; organs without opus number, which includes Wolff’s plans for proposed but ultimately not-constructed organs; and finally plans by other organ builders or Wolff’s drawings based on historical treatises and documents.

This series contains Hellmuth Wolff’s correspondence files. Subseries i contains correspondence between Wolff and various organ builders in English, French and German, primarily related to Wolff’s editorial work for the for the International Society of Organbuilders’ ISO Yearbook 1993, which spanned four years from 1992-1996. Subseries ii contains workshop documents, including opus lists.

This series contains the print copies of journals and conference proceedings in Hellmuth Wolff’s library. There are some annotations on several of the issues. The works are listed in two separate bibliographies in Appendix 1: Periodicals/Journals Bibliography and Appendix 2: Conference Publications Bibliography.

This series contains print copies of published monographs of various languages. The works are lists in the bibliography in Appendix 3: Book Collection Bibliography.