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A hand-pumped Indian harmonium, of the type used in South Asia, here used at a European jazz festival.. The pump organ or reed organ is a type of organ using free-reeds that generates sound as air flows past the free-reeds, the vibrating pieces of thin metal in a frame.
Casavant Frères (Joseph Casavant) – Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec; Legge Organ Co. Ltd – Toronto, Ontario Gabriel Kney – London, Ontario; Guilbault-Thérien [] – Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec
A reed pipe comprises a metal tongue (the reed) which rests against a shallot, in which is carved a tunnel. The reed and shallot are held in place by a wooden wedge. This assembly protrudes from the underside of the block and hangs down into the boot. A tuning wire is inserted through the boot and is bent to hold the reed against the shallot.
The organ was built at an uncertain date by Holdich of London and enlarged in 1897 by Lewis and Company, also of London. Rushworth and Dreaper overhauled it, and it was later renovated by Peter Collins. The organ was awarded a Historic Organ Certificate in 1999. [28] St Thomas' Church, Stockton Heath
The Estey Organ Company was an organ manufacturer based in Brattleboro, Vermont, founded in 1852 by Jacob Estey.At its peak, the company was one of the world's largest organ manufacturers, employed about 700 people, and sold its high-quality items as far away as Africa, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand.
Rushworth and Dreaper was a firm of organ builders, and later general instrument suppliers associated with Paul McCartney, [1] based in Liverpool. [2] The manufacturer was founded in 1828 by William Rushworth. In the 1950s it absorbed Wilkinson, the Kendal organ builders. [3] It operated until 2002.
The reeds were originally manufactured for American style suction reed organs being manufactured in Germany on machinery that was bought second hand in Chicago in the United States and imported to Germany by Karl Mannborg son of Theodor Mannborg. Mannborg owned the factory in Pegau, Germany supplying organ parts for American style suction reed ...
The Vox Continental uses six slider-type, metered volume controls called drawbars instead of the stop-tab rocker switches seen on other combo organs. Two of the drawbars on the right hand side control the voices (flute and reed tones), while the four on the left control the footages (corresponding to ranks of pipes on a pipe organ).
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