{"id":98,"date":"2025-09-06T17:07:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T17:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tosdv.org\/?page_id=98"},"modified":"2025-09-06T20:44:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T20:44:46","slug":"membership","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tosdv.org\/index.php\/membership\/","title":{"rendered":"MEMBERSHIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>TOSDV MEMBERSHIP &amp; SUPPORT<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Join the Theatre Organ Society of the Delaware Valley!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tosdv.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cropped-TOSDV-LOGO-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tosdv.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cropped-TOSDV-LOGO-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tosdv.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cropped-TOSDV-LOGO-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/tosdv.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cropped-TOSDV-LOGO-270x270.jpg 270w, https:\/\/tosdv.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cropped-TOSDV-LOGO-192x192.jpg 192w, https:\/\/tosdv.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cropped-TOSDV-LOGO-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/tosdv.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cropped-TOSDV-LOGO-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/tosdv.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cropped-TOSDV-LOGO.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0SUPPORT US!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>As part of a community of music lovers your <\/strong><strong>annual membership payments<\/strong><strong> and <\/strong><strong>donations<\/strong><strong> help keep our instruments playing, meet our goals, and fund our mission.\u00a0 Membership is open to anyone who has an interest in listening to, playing, restoring, or preserving the Theatre Pipe Organ. Donations are always welcome.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Theatre Organ Society of the Delaware Valley Inc. (TOSDV), a\u00a0 Chapter of The American Theatre Organ Society (ATOS), is a non-profit section 501(c) (3) corporation. Donations are tax deductible to the full extent of the law.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Benefits of Membership<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Concerts and Silent Films<\/strong><\/span><strong> accompanied by internationally known artists and our local organists.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Open Console<\/strong><\/span><strong>, offering frequent chances; for <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">everyone to play<\/span>. Playing ability in the group ranges from beginner to professional. There is always someone available to assist you, if desired.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Theatre Organ 101 Presentations<\/strong><\/span><strong>\u00a0\u2013 Learn about how uncomplicated these complicated looking instruments really are!<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Private home concerts and events <\/strong><\/span><strong>which are limited to members only!<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Restoration \/ Maintenance <\/strong><\/span><strong>\u2013 Learn the intricacies of how the \u201cKing of Instruments\u201d works. Join one of our Organ Crews to help with organ preservation. Restoration projects are labor intensive, and require a wide variety of easily learned skills. Learn from our professional organ builder members. There is something for everyone!<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Newsletter<\/strong><\/span><strong> \u2013 Our regular E-mailed newsletter <span style=\"color: #0521f7;\"><em>The Lift<\/em> <\/span>keeps you informed of concerts, silent films, open console, sing-a- longs, meetings, social gatherings, work sessions, and project progress. E-mail updates about breaking news supplement the newsletter.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Choose from Two Types of Membership<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> Members of ATOS.<\/span> You can make a difference in furthering the Society\u2019s goals by<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> joining TOSDV as a voting member<\/span>, and attending our annual business meeting where your ideas on important issues are welcomed. In order to vote and to hold office in our local society, however, you must also belong to our parent organization, the American Theatre Organ Society (ATOS). Membership in ATOS brings you the bi-monthly magazine \u201cTheatre Organ\u201d and informs you about national and international Theatre Organ conventions and events. For more information and to join ATOS, visit their website <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atos.org\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">www.atos.org<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Non-members of ATOS <\/span>are invited to <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">join TOSDV as friends<\/span> with all privileges of membership <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">except voting, and running for office in our local Society.<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>JOIN NOW!<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>(Download, Print &amp; Fill Out Form, &amp; Mail with Check).<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><strong>MS Word Form: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tosdv.org\/index.php\/membership-donation-form\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0Apply-for-Membership \/ Donate<\/span><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n___________________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Charitable Entity Details<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Theatre Organ Society of the Delaware Valley, Inc. was incorporated on September 7, 1967 in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a non-profit, non-stock membership corporation (Entity # 354948). It has received its income tax determination as a charitable entity from the Internal Revenue Service under Sect. 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is registered with the PA Bureau of Charitable Organizations (Reg. # 32434). A copy of the official registration and financial information may be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by calling toll-free, within Pennsylvania, 1-800-732-0999.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOSDV MEMBERSHIP &amp; SUPPORT Join the Theatre Organ Society of the Delaware Valley! \u00a0SUPPORT US! As part of a community of music lovers your annual membership payments and donations help keep our instruments playing, meet our goals, and fund our mission.\u00a0 Membership is open to anyone who has an interest in listening to, playing, restoring, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-98","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tosdv.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tosdv.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tosdv.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tosdv.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tosdv.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/tosdv.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/tosdv.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tosdv.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}