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. Plays Wurlitzer and Estey e-rolls from my archive.
How to translate organ midi files and e-rolls to play on other organs Download e-roll player, eplay. Further rolls will be added as time permits. Estey instruments used tubular-pneumatic or electro-pneumatic action. Wurlitzer Band Organ e-Roll Archive Styles 125, 150 and 165. 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.