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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.
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.
Description: Illustrated Catalogue of Cottage Organs (1875), J. Estey & Company (Brattleboro, Vermont) Date: 1875: Source (1875) Illustrated catalogue of cottage organs : giving a brief account of the most extensive cottage organ establishment in the world; together with a description of the different styles of organs manufactured, their peculiarties and patented improvements, J. Estey ...
At the age of 18, Haskell began working with his father, and around 1901, he established the William E. Haskell Co. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This organ-building firm was later acquired by Estey Organ Co., and Haskell became superintendent of the Estey pipe organ division, which was located in Vermont. He died there on May 13, 1927.
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Vox humana pipes. The vox humana (Latin for "human voice"; also "voz humana" in Spanish and Portuguese, "voix humaine" in French and "voce umana" in Italian, although "voce umana" is also a term for a celeste stop, q.v.) is a short-resonator reed stop on the pipe organ, so named because of its supposed resemblance to the human voice. [1]
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The first organ produced in the deeper Model B cabinet, to accommodate the chorus generator [7] B-A: 1938 [8] Model B-C style organ with built-in player organ mechanism [9] (possibly Duo-Art), custom built by Aeolian-Skinner. [10] BV: 1946–1949 [6] Same as Model B-C but with the Hammond Vibrato and Vibrato Chorus.