1908 Estey Reed organ stop-by-stop Demo

[@cecilspianos]

Wonderful instrument and I really enjoy your videos! I appreciate your stop by stop and combination explanations. Your videos show how much more versatile and expressive reed organs can be compared to what most people I've encountered seem to think. Thanks for expanding the knowledge and appreciation of these beautiful instruments!

[@ianthompson9201]

I do enjoy these stop-by-stop demonstrations. Having seen the woodcut of the Salon Organ years ago but never having come across one in the flesh, I've always found this model intriguing, and here at last is every question answered! Interesting that the break is E/F, whereas the later Artist's Model is B/C with 13-note Sub-Bass---although numerous variants of the Artist's seem to turn up. Thanks for restoring and airing this fine instrument.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

7:44 This one has a 17 Note Sub-Bass & a 16' Clarinet Stop that continues on up from it. Some models can play down to F0 but I think if they made it an Octaved Sub-Bass (16 & 8 together like a Helikon Bass Accordion) it would allow those notes to start right away.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

11:45 Estey has continued the Double Rank 2 ft Piccolo Celeste all the way up to the Top F. Adding those higher Reeds is easy because it doesn't take alot of air to make them sound.

[@fnersch3367]

Wonderful old organ. Hope you do an update when finished and play a little.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

A salon Orchestra was basically a Chamberfied version of a Symphony Orchestra

[@mrhomemaker9377]

This is a very similar registration to my Artist's model Estey, the only differences being that my Aeoline Harp is 4" and runs gammut and also has a bass 16" Clarinet too. The 2" would add brightness which would be useful for accompanying hymns. too.

[@MasonHamlinOrgans]

I have never found one (in person) with the 4ft celeste. I don't know of any music that calls for one. So much easier to tune, though.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

@@MasonHamlinOrgans List of stops.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

@@MasonHamlinOrgans Adding those higher reeds is easy because it doesn't take alot of air to make them sound

[@baritonebynight]

Great instrument!

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

Those teeny tiny 2 ft reeds go all the way up to F8, a perfect fourth above the High C on a Piano.

[@Musique3579]

Nice demo Casey and glad for whatever reason I was actually able to post. The reeds sound as good as the old ones (All Brass composition rather then watered down reeds starting in the 1880's,) Perhaps most of the reeds in this organ were left-overs at Esteys Factory, or perhaps just one of those rare time Estey may have reverted to their their original formula of making reeds.

[@MasonHamlinOrgans]

Musique3579 They definitely put a lot of work into the voicing compared to a regular parlor organ. I'm playing the heck out of it right now so I can do the second tuning in a week or two. They used the wide-scale "Trumpet" reeds for the Clarionet 16ft!

[@Musique3579]

***** Oh wow. Bet those 16' Reeds sound great! :-)

[@cmefly2001]

+MasonHamlinOrgans it sounds like an accordion.

[@MasonHamlinOrgans]

+Tate Jervis tysm, I guess

[@garysmith394]

I am assuming you memorized the names of the stops since in your close-ups I didn't see any stop names on the 15 stopknobs.

[@marksmith4235]

What kind of war was this instrument. In anyway.

[@aeternamelodiam]

Maravilloso instrumento!! Hermoso sonido.

[@MasonHamlinOrgans]

Samuel Manfrotto Thank you; yes, many pretty sounds in this box!

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

@@MasonHamlinOrgans This goes all the way up to F8, a fourth above Top C on Piano, & it's in fact the High F on another instrument the Celesta which is a Keyed Metallophone.

[@fiat300pct]

Thanks for this video! Between your and Rodney's videos, I'm learning a lot playing these organs. The mistake I made in my video... playing was having the Basson full out on a 1st inversion chord and that made my playing distorted. I see from your videos now how to correct that. Changing my playing... but practicing it on a Electone FE30 is somewhat difficult. I'll go through all your videos!

[@MasonHamlinOrgans]

+fiat300pct I recommend the channel Mustel1887 too! If you emulate _my_ playing you will not be a good musician! But thank you. If you are talking about only pulling stops partway out, that is only possible on certain kinds of reed organs. It does not work on a pressure instrument like that Schiedmayer. There may be other ways to soften the sounds, like "Sourdine" and the "Fortes" (which affects #3 and #4).

[@fiat300pct]

I'm in his channel right now.... Stunning!!!!!! I love base pedals...

[@TheMKEWERBY]

A truly unique instrument! Tell me, does this have a tremolo stop, by which the reservoir could be bypassed and you could control the volume, accent capability and vibrato via different pedal techniques?

[@yowtfputthemaskbackon9202]

this is all nice and all but the one thing i wanna know is what madman shoots an organ

[@MasonHamlinOrgans]

It was in a German-held city that was under siege by the Soviet army in the closing months of WW2. It saw some action.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

With that many reeds, the range of this organ is kinda the same as a Piano.

[@Emre-tf8hp]

this is like a tabletop accordion haha

[@vittoriobacchiega9118]

This is an harmonium (called reed organ into your country) not an organ (organ is instrument with pipes and another thing 🙄)

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

Harmonium is a kind of Organ.

[@yowtfputthemaskbackon9202]

harmoniums or reed organs are a type of organ. the "organ" you are refereing to is a pipe organ or church organ depending on what you want to call it and its also a type of organ

[@vittoriobacchiega9118]

@@yowtfputthemaskbackon9202 thank for your explanation but you can see me seated on organ bench into my picture beside my name. Cheers

[@yowtfputthemaskbackon9202]

@@vittoriobacchiega9118 you sitting next to an organ does not make you corect. me changing my profile pic to me sitting next to one wouldnt give my word more value either. you are implying that only pipe organs are organs which is wrong. there are several kinds of organs, pipe organs beeing the most famouse example of them. reed organs are just a different variety of organ to pipe organs.

[@vittoriobacchiega9118]

@@yowtfputthemaskbackon9202 the necessity of specification is due the invention of "reduced" substitute of you named pipe organ. Harmonium it is armonium, hammond is electrophone keyboard instrument, and other recent inventions. Organ was born B. C. (see Ctesibius from Greek).

[@herycompos4929]

I have that instrumen & just for decoration my house because need to repair it, mine is estey organ brattleboro 1967 serial number 362525

[@jrzzrj]

It was disappointing in that you didn't demonstrate the FULL ORGAN (all stops out)....As this organ is a rare.... fine sounding instrument......shame....

[@steelman86]

Hey?????? Very rude start!!!👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎