Have her little chair and she'd pump and play.we'd sing and shout.the Pulled the little organ down to the corner, near the bar.Grandma would Of these small Esteys on which they had installed wheels.And yes, we
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It's just what it says! LOL My grandma Bess was the organist. I was raised in an oldįashioned Pentecostal church. September 2010: Hi, saw your page and just had to send a quick email. I found your site after telling my daughter this story she is in college, is taking a similar course, has a similar keyboarding requirement but is using her house's piano for practice! )Īn unschooling mom sent a note on Facebook, early 2010: We used them for practicing our keyboard technique in our dorm rooms I had mine for the entire freshman year. I took a two-term music theory sequence called "Basic Tonal Materials I & II" - what a name for a music course at an engineering school!Īnyways, the music department had a set, maybe four or five, of these Estey Juniors for loan they were described as "Army field organs" and were olive drab in color. I'm sorry that I can't provide any additional information, only an anecdote: In 1980-1981 I was a freshman at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY. I found your site a few minutes ago thanks very much for the information you've provided there! Use "slide show" when you get there for largest images. The organ fits in the back of the mini-van, but the van's still in the shop, so Keith's trying to arrange for someone else to take it to Los Lunas. People will be riding horses and we'll just be playing background music in a wooden reviewing stand. Tomorrow/Saturday, we're playing music at a small SCA equestrian event. One doubles each note (opens a second set of reeds) and the other increases the volume somehow. It has two knee paddles you can press out on while you pump. It's a reed organ, so kind of a mechanical harmonica, in a way. It looks like a wooden box with a hinged top, so it even looks potentially like an old sewing machine case. It cost $83 and is about the size of a treadle sewing machine. There's a guy trying to reconstruct the history of the Estey Organ inventory, and mine is registered. It's a chaplain's organ from maybe WWI, maybe WWII. Mike plays cello, the rest of us recorder, and sometimes Jeff or I will play the little pump organ we got at the thrift store. We've been playing music weekly with Jeff Cunico and Mike Fine (who rents the Princess Jeanne house). I wish I had documented better! On MaI wrote to my in-laws:
#2002 ESTEY ORGAN REGISTRATION#
I have forwarded your message to Lonnie Kuhn, who takes care of organ registration for the Reed Organ Society.
#2002 ESTEY ORGAN SERIAL NUMBERS#
If you find a date on the instrument it would help a lot because we don't have any dated serial numbers between 10.
#2002 ESTEY ORGAN SERIAL NUMBER#
See number 0353 in the database on my website The serial number dates to between 1941 (457999) and 1950 (493343). After my first inquiries I was told it was probably a Chaplain's Organ.Īfter I made this site, I wrote again and received the following response: There is an Estey Organ Museum in Brattleboro, Vermont with information about that particular manufacturer. The Reed Organ Society's site has a growing list of links and other information. If you know someone with a reed organ, they can register online or by mail. The Reed Organ Society gave me a registration number, and a sticker which is up inside the organ. It does say "Estey," so I started looking for information as soon as I had it.
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In late 1999 or early 2000, I bought an organ at a thrift store in Albuquerque. I'll tell what I know and add to it as I learn more. I thought maybe it was a sewing machine, or a storage cabinet. Unless otherwise noted, words are Sandra Dodd'sīelow is the angle from which I first saw this, at the thrift store.