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- This organ was made by Abraham Prescott in Concord, New Hampshire, around 1845-1855. It is a melodeon (lap organ) with a rectangular rosewood case, double bellows, single keyboard, with a compass of C - c3. This instrument is also known as an “elbow” organ, “rocking” melodeon, or lap organ. The swell knob plate is inscribed:
- A. PRESCOTTMANUFACTURERCONCORDN.H.
- Abraham Prescott (1789-1858) was one of the most prolific of the bass viol makers. A self-taught instrument maker, he began his craft in Deerfield, New Hampshire, in 1809 and moved his business to Concord in 1831, where he continued to make violoncellos, bass viols, and double basses (and later reed organs and pianos) until about 1850. Prescott instruments are often fitted with machine-head tuning gears instead of more usual pegs.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1845-1855
- ID Number
- MI.299856
- catalog number
- 299856
- accession number
- 61285
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- Description
- This pipe organ was made by an undetermined maker in the United States, around 1845-1855. It has a single keyboard, with a compass of C - g3, and 12 pedal keys. The organ's disposition is as follows:
- 8' Melodia8' Viol de Amore8' Stopped Diapason bass
- 4' Flute (open)4' Principal, divided treble and bassHarmonia Reed (free reed, no pipes)Pedal Bass (coupler)Guillotine Swell
- Location
- Currently not on view (organ base)
- Currently not on view
- Currently not on view (bellows; display pipe section; fragment, bellows; front panel; organ top; organ top fragment; screw; side panel; slatted panel)
- date made
- 1845-1855
- ID Number
- MI.303525
- catalog number
- 303525
- accession number
- 62559
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- Description
- This organ was made by James A. Bazin in Canton, Massachusetts, around 1825-1850. It is a harmonium, with a rosewood case, four legs, 2 pedals, and a single keyboard, with a compass of C - c3. The instrument is stamped (on a reed):
- BAZIN
- James Amireaux Bazin (1798-1883) was an American musical instrument maker of some of the earliest examples of reed instruments, such as lap organs, in the United States.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1825-1850
- ID Number
- MI.315658
- catalog number
- 315658
- accession number
- 58488
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- Description
- This reed organ was made by C.H. Packard in North Bridgewater, Massachusetts, around 1848-1852. It is a lyre-leg style melodeon, single keyboard, with a compass of C - c3. The instrument arrived in the museum without pedals. The instrument has a printed label:
- MANUFACTURED BYC. H. PACKARDNorth Bridgewater, Mass.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1848-1852
- ID Number
- MI.096410
- catalog number
- 096410
- accession number
- 30431
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- Description
- This reed organ was made by Alexandre Pere et Fils in Paris, France, around 1897-1899. It is a harmonium with a single keyboard, with a compass of C - c3. This instrument has 4 full ranks reeds, 2 half ranks, and 2 pedals.
- Jacob Alexandre (1804-1876) formed a company in Paris making accordions and harmonicas, in 1829. Jacob Alexandre’s son, Edouard (1824-1888) joined the firm in the mid-1840s when the company began producing instruments under the name “melodeum organs,” as the name “harmonium” was registered by French inventor Alexandre-François Debain (1809-1877). Originally called “Alexandre et Fils” the firm’s name later became “Alexandre Père et Fils.” The company was acquired by the Fortin Brothers in,1907.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1897-1899
- ID Number
- 1983.0497.01
- accession number
- 1983.0497
- catalog number
- 1983.0497.01
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- Description
- This pipe organ was made by William Davis in New York, New York, in 1863. It has a single keyboard, with a compass of C - g3. The organ’s disposition is as follows:
- 8' Open Diapason4' Principal8' Stopped Diapason (chimney flute)4' Flute (from f)8' Dulciana (from f)
- This organ was in use in the Christ Episcopal Church in Jordan, New York for over a hundred years. It was purchased by the donor in the 1960s, and donated to the Smithsonian in 1971.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Currently not on view (blower, stop actions, swell pedal)
- Currently not on view (organ parts)
- Currently not on view (pipes, organ parts)
- date made
- 1863
- maker
- Davis, William
- ID Number
- MI.70.20
- accession number
- 293458
- catalog number
- 70.20
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- Description
- This reed organ was made by Abraham Prescott in Concord, New Hampshire, around 1835-1837. It is a small melodeon, with a rosewood case, single keyboard, with a compass of C-c3, and a pedal activated bellows suspended below the instrument. The instrument is marked:
- A. PRESCOTTMANUFACTURER.CONCORDN.H.
- Abraham Prescott (1789-1858) was an early American maker of melodeons, who concentrated on them after setting up his shop in Concord, New Hampshire in 1831. "Melodeon" is defined as a reed organ with a simple stand, rather than a cabinet-style enclosure, which descends to the floor. Reed organs gradually went out of fashion, as upright pianos became affordable and easily available around 1910.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1838-1842
- ID Number
- 1992.0085.01
- accession number
- 1992.0085
- catalog number
- 1992.0085.01
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- Description
- This pipe organ was made by Jacob Hilbus in Washington, District of Columbia, around 1811-1813. It has a single keyboard, with a compass of FF – f3. The organ’s disposition is as follows:
- Single keyboard, FF - f38' Open Diapason8' Dulciana (c1 – f3)8' Stopped Diapason (Treble and Bass)4” Flute4' Principal (Treble and Bass)2 2/3' Twelfth2' Fifteenth8' Open Diapason (in guillotine Swell, c1 – f3)4' Principal (in guillotine Swell, c1 – f3)Machine stop
- Jacob Hilbus was a musical jack-of-all-trades, a Washingtonian who built several organs. This instrument came to the museum in 1907 as a gift from the Vestry of St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church in Hancock, Maryland.
- Much misinformation exists about the organ, notably that it was an English early eighteenth-century instrument originally in St. Peter’s Church, Port Royal, Virginia. There is no evidence for this. It is almost certain (but not easily documented) that it was made for Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia. At least, there is an entry in the Vestry minutes for January 15, 1815, noting that Hilbus needed more money from the church. The instrument bears many hallmarks of somewhat primitive early nineteenth-century American work. Its wooden parts, for instance, are made of American poplar and eastern pine.
- It is probable that the organ was also in St. Johmn’s Church, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, before going to St. Thomas’ in Hancock. Reasons for attributing the organ to Hilbus include similarities to a Hilbus instrument in St. John’s Church, Broad Creek, Maryland, and the existence of a bill from Hilbus for tuning “a piano forty” that was used to glue up a joint within the organ.
- The Fisk restoration report of 1967 states, “Recent research by various people at C. B. Fisk, Inc., and elsewhere, has proved beyond question that the organ belonging to the Smithsonian and long thought to have been an early 18th-century English organ which had once belonged to a church in Port Royal, was in fact built entirely new by Jacob Hilbus and Henry Howison of Washington, D.C. for Christ Church in Alexandria.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Currently not on view (pipes)
- Currently not on view (organ parts)
- Currently not on view (case parts, impost molding)
- Currently not on view (organ structure core, bellows, keyboard)
- Currently not on view (pipes, organ parts, blueboard boxes of parts)
- date made
- 1811-1813
- user
- Vestry of St. Thomas Church
- ID Number
- MI.244851
- accession number
- 46831
- catalog number
- 244851
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- Description
- This reed organ was made Austin & Dearborn in Concord, New Hampshire, around 1848-1852. It is a piano style melodeon, serial #304, with a rosewood case, single keyboard, with a compass of FF - f3, and two pedals (one missing). The instrument is stenciled:
- Austin & DearbornManufacturersConcordN.H.
- Charles Austin (1813-1884) and David M. Dearborn (1810-1865) were musical instrument makers in Concord, New Hampshire. David M. Dearborn and his brother Andrew were apprentices for piano and organ maker Abraham Prescott in Concord, New Hampshire, in the early 1830s. Austin and Dearborn formed their musical instrument company in 1848. Dearborn is listed as President of the company. In 1852, Dearborn left the company, and both went on to other musical instrument making enterprises.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1848-1852
- ID Number
- MI.315723
- catalog number
- 315723
- accession number
- 58488
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- Description
- This pipe organ was made by Henry Erben in New York, New York, in 1848. It has a single keyboard, with a compass of C - c4, and a pedalboard (no separate pedal pipes), with a compass of C – c. The organ’s stop list is as follows:
- 8' Dulciana (from c)8' Flute (from c)4' Principal8' Diapason bass (C - B)
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1848
- ID Number
- MI.69.17
- accession number
- 283514
- catalog number
- 69.17
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- Description
- This reed organ was made by M. Kasriel in Paris, France, around 1848-1852. It is a table-top harmonium, with a single keyboard, compass of F - g2. Bellows on top of the instrument are activate by the left hand, and the right hand plays the keyboard. There are three stops, one labeled “Flute 3,” the other two are unidentified. There is an enameled disc below the keyboard inscribed:
- HARMONIUMSMADE IN FRANCEles Petits FilsM. KASRIELPARIS
- Louis Maurice Kasriel (1815-1899) was a Polish-born musical instrument maker. He moved to Paris in 1839, setting up a shop making harmoniums, harmoniflutes, and guide-chants. The firm continued to make harmoniums until 1984.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- MI.393724
- catalog number
- 393724
- accession number
- 209347
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- Description
- This reed organ was made by Mason & Hamlin Organ Co. in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1876. It is a cabinet style pump organ, serial #34435, with a single keyboard, with a compass of FF - f3, a knee stop, and two pedals. The organ’s stop list is as follows:
- Bass: ViolaDiapasonTreble: Melodia FluteTremulant
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1876
- maker
- Mason & Hamlin
- ID Number
- MI.63.802
- catalog number
- 63.802
- accession number
- 243150
- serial number
- 34,435
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- Description
- This pipe organ was made by an undetermined maker, possibly in Toggenburg, Switzerland, around 1775-1799. It has a single keyboard, with a compass of C - c3. The organ’s stop list is as follows:
- 8' Gedeckt4' Principal4' Flute2' Octave1 1/3 Quint1' Octave
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1775-1799
- ID Number
- MI.71.01
- accession number
- 290540
- catalog number
- 71.01
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- Description
- This reed organ was made by Walker in Norwich, Connecticut, around 1837-1843. It is a small reed organ made of rosewood on a trestle stand. It has a single keyboard, with a compass of C – c3. Bellows suspended below the instrument are activated with a foot pedal. There is an engraved metal plate above the keyboard:
- Walker’s PatentSwell SeraphineNorwich, Conn.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1837-1843
- maker
- Walker
- ID Number
- MI.315722
- catalog number
- 315722
- accession number
- 58488
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- Description
- This reed organ was made by made by Carhart, Needham & Co. in New York, New York, in 1864. It is a piano style melodeon with a rosewood case, 2 keyboards, with a compass of FF - f3, top keyboard 4', lower keyboard 8', and a coupler. The instrument is stenciled above the keyboards:
- Carhart, Needham & Co.New York
- Carhart Patent, July 1st 1856
- In 1846, Jeremiah Carhart (1813-1868) and Elias Parkham Needham (1812-1889) established the Carhart & Needham Organ Company. The company made organs and melodeons. Carhart had previously learned the trade form George A. Prince of Buffalo, New York. In 1855, Samuel C. Swartz joined the firm which was reorganized as “Carhart, Needham & Company.” Swartz died in 1865, and the firm returned to “Carhart & Needham.” After Carhart’s death in 1868, Needham’s son joined the firm which became “E. P. Needham & Son.”
- Carhart is credited with many U. S. patents for the melodeon. This instrument features U.S. Patent #15218 dated July 1, 1856, by Jeremiah Carhart for an improvement in melodeons.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- unspecified
- Worch, Hugo
- ID Number
- MI.315702
- catalog number
- 315702
- accession number
- 58488
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- Description
- This pipe organ was made by John Snetzler in London, England, in 1761. It has a single keyboard, with a compass of GG/c - e3 (no GG3, AA#, BB). The organ’s stop list is as follows:
- 8' Open Diapason (treble only)8' Stopped Diapason4' Flute2' FifteenthII Sesquialtera (bass)II Cornet (treble)Swell shutter in lid of caseMachine stop
- Dr. Samuel Bard of Philadelphia and New York, a physician who attended George Washington, is believed to have imported this organ from England shortly after its manufacture. Signed and dated :john Snetzler fecit London 1761” inside the pallet box under the keyboard, this instrument is typical of the many chamber organs many by Snetzler.
- In addition to its use in Dr. Bard's homes, this organ was moved to the Episcopal Church of Hyde Park, New York, and several other locations. While on loan to the Collection of the New York State Historical Society in Cooperstown, N.Y., it was purchased by the Smithsonian from heirs of its original owner, restored in the shop of C. B. Fisk, and accessioned in the collections in 1969.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1761
- ID Number
- MI.69.05
- accession number
- 283575
- catalog number
- 69.05
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- Description
- This reed organ was made by George A. Prince & Co. in Buffalo, New York, about 1850. It is a portable melodeon, also called a "singing teacher's organ" with a rosewood case, collapsible legs, bellows pedal and a small pedal on the left front leg. It has a single keyboard, with a compass of C - c3. The instrument has a printed paper label:
- No. 4409IMPROVED MELODEONMANUFACTURED BYPRINCE & CO.PATENTED DEC 28th, 1846
- This instrument features U. S. Patent #4912 dated December 28, 1846, by Jeremiah Carhart for bellows for musical instruments.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1850
- ID Number
- MI.248299
- accession number
- 48146
- catalog number
- 248299
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- Description
- This reed organ was made by Mason & Hamlin in Boston, Massachusetts, around 1895-1898. It is a parlor model with top, style 3303, serial #152182, with a single keyboard, two knee swells, and two pedals. The organ’s stop list is as follows:
- DulcianaDiapasonViola DulceViolaAeolian HarpVox HumanaClarionetOboeVoix CelesteMelodiaClarabella
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1895-1898
- maker
- Mason & Hamlin
- ID Number
- 1985.0583.01
- accession number
- 1985.0583
- catalog number
- 1985.0583.01
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- Description
- This reed organ was made by Estey Organ Company, in Brattleboro, Vermont, around 1935-1940. It is a portable or “Chaplain’s” reed organ, serial number 491204. There is a printed label inside the lid:
- ESTEY ORGAN COMPANYManufacturersBRATTLEBORO, VERMONT, U.S.A.No. 4912041782
- (decal on music desk):
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1935 -1940
- maker
- Estey Organ Company
- ID Number
- 1998.0031.01
- catalog number
- 1998.0031.01
- accession number
- 1998.0031
- serial number
- 491204
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- Description
- This pipe organ was made by an undetermined maker in New England, United States, around 1825-1835. It has a single keyboard, C - f3. The organ’s disposition is as follows:
- 8' Open Diapason? (from a)8' Stopped Diapason4' Principal (or flute)Blocked slide
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1825-1835
- ID Number
- MI.299835
- accession number
- 61285
- catalog number
- 299835
