His writings on organ building were influential in the early years of the Organ Reform Movement, the move in fashion away from the large nineteenth century Romantic instruments to the more refined instruments suited to Baroque music. His pamphlet, The Art of German and French Organ building and playing, was published in 1906, setting out his ideas for the perfect organ, with comparisons between contemporary French and German styles of instrument. He presented his ideas on modern organ building again to the Vienna Congress of the International Musical Society in 1909.