This is an antique Estey pump organ, also known as a reed organ. Antique Estey Pump Organ - $250 (SHINGLE SPRINGS).Very good condition, it does makes sound as one bellow works, but the other bellow will need repaired for full sound effe. In getting ready for renovation to our home, I no longer have room for it. Made from Estey Organ Company ,Battleboro VT. Antique Estey Pump Organ - $100 (Milan Ohio).Please contact for more information.$250.00 OBO. Organ partially works and is in need of restoration.
SN: 384268 - $150īeautiful ESTEY ANTIQUE PUMP ORGAN manufactured around 1911 according to serial number 384268. Estey Pump Organ from Brattleboro, VT.PUMP ORGANBeautiful Pump Organ in Working Order - was recently gone through.Made in Brattleboro, VermontStool is sold46″ wide, 46″ tall, and 22″ deepAsking $150 or Best Offer!Call or Text. PUMP ORGAN - $150 (NW Rochester)ĮSTEY ORGAN CO. Uwe Pape, The Tracker Organ Revival in America, (Berlin: Pape Verlag, 1978), 36, 60.1 (Pasadena: Showcase Publications, 1985), 105. David Junchen, Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ, vol.Gellerman, Gellerman's International Reed Organ Atlas (Vestal, NY: The Vestal Press, 1985), 43. Putnam Thomas Radley Francis Ratti Premo F. 1901 bankrupt, 1933 firm reorganized agents for Rieger Organs of Austria, 1953 firm closed, 1959 corporate relationship with Estey Corporation of Delaware, and Minshall-Estey. Fuller, 1866 firm renamed Estey Organ Co., 1872 began pipe organ production, c. Estey & Co., reed organs, by Jacob Estey, Riley Burditt, Silas Waite, and Joel Bullard in Brattleboro, Vermont, 1863 successor to the firms of Burditt & Carpenter, Isaac Hines & Co., and Estey & Green firm reorganized by Jacob Estey, Julius J. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991).
We received the most recent update for this note from Database Managerįrom the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Estey Organ Virtual Museum, accessed Nov 6, 2015.
The OHS Database lists 249 Estey organs that were 3 manuals or larger. Estey concentrated on stock model two-manual instruments and regarded any deviation in size and specification as a "Special" job." Some of their special jobs were as large as four manuals, however, and were found in larger churches, civic auditoriums and colleges. The stop actions included such oddities as the "stop key" and "luminous" types, and while the organs were built of excellent materials, they were often so compact that maintenance was expensive and nearly impossible to perform. The large Estey factory continued to build reed organs.ĭuring the first decades of the century, the Estey catalogs described standard designs, the stoplists having no upperwork (no mutations, fifteenths or mixtures) and that Haskell specialty, a labial reed stop.Ī typical stop list had three or four unison stops and a single octave stop on each manual and a 16 foot stopped bass for the pedal. Estey instruments used tubular-pneumatic or electro-pneumatic action. During the next fifty-nine years, the company built and rebuilt 3261 pipe organs. Haskell (1865-1927), to open the pipe organ department in 1901. "The Estey Organ Company manufactured excellent reed organs for more than half a century before engaging the Roosevelt-trained Philadelphia builder, William E. From OHS Database Builders editor, November 6, 2015.