The most common antique organ we see today is the parlor style pump organ because back in the 1880s, families would usually keep their pump organs in their parlor rooms (later called living rooms, today called family rooms).
Estey made a folding suitcase-type organ for Lyon & Healy, (qv). in 1872 and as the Estey Corporation in the early 1930s, (after 1933), closed in 1959. Incidentally, some of these brass reeds can be as small as 3/4 of an inch in length to over 5 inches. A new factory was started in 1869 on Birge Street at the Dickenson Farm, later called Esteyville reorganized as Estey Organ Co. But if the truth were known the pump organ industry, the people that built them, always called them reed organs because their sound is produced from brass reeds. While some of these organs might have only a few stops (the dowel-like things that you can pull out) others could have over 20 stops.
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They range from the small lap organ to the fairly large and pretty heavy three manual (rows of keys) organ. Basically, there are 12 different types of antique organs. When someone tells me they have an antique organ, a number of organs come to mind. We invite visitors of all ages to learn how the Estey Organ Company influenced the musical, industrial and social history of the 19th and 20th centuries by exploring our collection of reed, pipe and electronic organs, catalogs, marketing materials, publications, and. My guess is that you, like so many other people that own reed organs, don't know a whole lot about what makes them tick. The Estey Organ Museum is devoted to documenting and preserving the heritage of the Estey Organ Company in Brattleboro, VT. Pickup and Delivery Available in the USA and Canadaīelow are a couple of dozen points of information that I've done on the reed organ. General Pump Organ Information - Pump Organ RestorationsĪmerica's Best Known Restorer of Antique Organs
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