V knige rassmatrivayutsya istoricheskie dokumenty i materialy, svyazannye s organnymi registrovkami v Germanii XVII-XVIII stoletiy. V chisle original'nykh istoricheskikh istochnikov, proanalizirovannykh avtorom - traktaty Mikhaelya Pretoriusa, Yakoba Adlunga, Danielya Gottloba Tyurka, Yustina Khaynrikha Knekhta, trudy Fridrikha Vil'gel'ma Marpurga, Ioganna Fridrikha Agrikoly, Andreasa Verkmaystera, registrovye predpisaniya k organnym kompozitsiyam I.S.Bakha, Georga Fridrikha Kaufmana, Danielya Magnusa Gronau, rekomendatsii vidneyshikh organostroiteley etogo vremeni Gotfrida i Andreasa Zil'bermanov, Yozefa Gablera, Ioganna Gottfrida Khaynrikha Trosta i mnogikh drugikh. Rassmotrena sovremennaya nauchnaya literatura po problematike issledovaniya. Rabota rekomendovana Uchenym sovetom Fakul'teta iskusstv Sankt-Peterburgskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta v kachestve uchebnogo posobiya po kursu istorii organnogo iskusstva.