Find a more comprehensive history of the company here. Employing some 500 people in ‘fireproof’ slate clad buildings (still standing) the Estey company was the pride of Vermont. A big sounding organ can now be placed in a small space thanks to these pipes.Įstey also employed women in the factory as tuners at a time when women did not work out of the home. Haskell basses, so named after William Haskell who was in charge of the organ department, are bass pipes within a pipe which allows a more compact design. The reedless reeds were able to hold their tune where a Reed pipe needs constant attention. Among the more famous ones were Reed voices using flue pipes allowing organs to be used in country churches where maintenance was infrequent. The Estey firm held many patents and innovations which are still used in organ building today. By the time the company closed in the late 1950s they had built over 521,000 reed organs. In 1901, they opened the pipe organ department and manufactured 3200 pipe organs. 1900s Estey Organ Co Walnut The Brattleboro Reed Pump Organ MP 286. (1846-1961) manufactured 520,000 Reed or pump organs in that time. The Estey organ was manufactured in Brattleboro, Vermont about 60 miles southwest of the church is. Swell to Swell 16,4 Swell Unison Off PEDAL (32 pipes) Waring (2002) Manufacturing the Muse: Estey Organs and Consumer Culture in Victorian America, Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press. For a comprehensive examination of the company, we recommend the book, Manufacturing the Muse by Dennis Waring. Unusual are 5 mechanical thumb pistons which can be programmed, albeit not easily.Ĥ Swell to Great 16,8,4 Great Unison Off SWELL (73 pipes each stop except as noted) 'Below is a very brief chronology of the Estey Organ Company.
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In excellent original condition, it has tubular pneumatic action and 8 ranks of pipes on 2 manuals and pedal. This is the church’s (1786) first pipe organ. This Opus 2828 pipe organ, installed in 1929 at a cost of $3250, was a gift from brothers David and Mark Sheldon.
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