Pulling Out All the Stops: The Estey Reed Organ

Curator Darcy Kuronen illuminates how an elaborate reed organ works and how it was used in the late 19th century. The organ, a Grand Salon model, was made by the Estey Organ Company in Brattleboro, Vermont around 1878.
"Autumn Leaves Waltz," by E. B. Phelps, from The Estey Organ Methor, 1882: performed by Darcy Kuronen
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[@bobbycvsixfour5258]

This was very interesting and looks like you can get a good EXERCISE at the same time. I will be heading up north to check out all the Estey Organs, why? My name is Bobby Estey :-)

[@alanlewis4713]

Greetings to Bobby Estey from the Jacob Estey Homestead in Brattleboro, Vermont, where I have resided since 1985. It is my hope that your pilgrimage worked out as well as you hoped. As I noted in a comment attached to another video, this Estey organ just played in Jacob Estey's house. This instrument has a nifty sound.

[@StGirlFriday]

This is wonderful, I love you

[@antoniosimoeseu]

I'm restoring one Estey Harmonium.

[@Patohead001]

Hello! I need to do Vibrato! Thanks

[@Offshoreorganbuilder]

Good, but there should have been more!

[@gordonm7038]

Do Boudoir models still exist?

[@Lucius1958]

There are a good number of surviving examples. I restored one from about 1875, which is in the Fishtown Chapel at Mystic Seaport Museum.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

I found an 88 Key Reed Organ which has the same range as a Piano, you play it like a Piano but it has that Classic Reed Organ sound:content.instructables.com/ORIG/FZC/QCPG/J8KGWH33/FZCQCPGJ8KGWH33.jpg?auto=webp

[@hatstalker]

Pipe organs have both....... you know reeds and flutes.

[@HobbyOrganist]

They do, but the pipe organ reeds are made differently and have a different sound.