From the OHS Organ Database, Builders Listing Editor, March 19, 2016. -

Partnership of Michael Fazio, and Richard G. Taylor in Chester, Connecticut in the 2000s. When Fazio and Taylor purchased Austin Organs in 2005 and became the new management for the Austin firm, American Classic was merged into Austin.

Sources:

1. Jane Gordon, "A Reason to Rejoice in Hartford: An Organ Business Is Saved" New York Times, February 19, 2006.


2. Austin Organs website, http://www.austinorgans.com/aoihistory.html, accessed March 19, 2016.