![]() ![]() Lastly, this particular pump organ was built for use in a church setting, as the backside of the unit would be exposed to the church congregation, so the back panel is also fully finished with solid tiger oak panels with beautiful scroll panels that will emit awesome light shadows onto back walls with the LED lights illuminated in dark lit rooms. Additionally, I installed remote controlled LED strips on the upper and lower sections of the desk that provides the desk illumination and makes for a beautiful setting in any home or business. The desktop includes portal access for electrical cords. ![]() I completely disassembled the organ and repurposed it as an organ desk by repositioning the foot control board to the rear of the desk, creating a new desktop from an antique oak drop leaf table, moving the keys and pull stops to the rear of the base cabinet, and finally refinishing the wood finish. Based on its Serial Number, #273606 this organ was manufactured between 18. ![]() It was manufactured in Brattleboro, Vermont. To view one of the articles listed below, simply click the blue article title.This pump organ was purchased in Alexander, Arkansas. To find the serial number on an Estey & Green melodeon, start by lifting the hinged lid. 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). Incidentally, some of these brass reeds can be as small as 3/4 of an inch in length to over 5 inches. 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. However, the one thing that almost all antique organs have in common is, you have to pump them with your feet, as a consequence, the general public came to call them pump organs. 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. 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. 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 serial number is printed on a paper label glued to the upper surface of the chest. To search for a serial number, lift the top of the organ case, if it is hinged. 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. Locating Serial Numbers on Estey Reed Organs Look Inside. General Pump Organ Information - Pump Organ RestorationsĪmerica's Best Known Restorer of Antique Organs ![]()
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