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- 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 reed organ was made by Mason & Hamlin Organ Co. in Boston, Massachusetts, around 1880-1885. It is a portable reed organ, model 109 with a single manual, with a compass of F - g2, and two pedals. This instrument was sold by Mason & Hamlin as a "Baby" organ.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1880-1885
- ID Number
- MI.74.03
- catalog number
- 74.03
- accession number
- 307854
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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 organ was made by Abraham Prescott in Concord, New Hampshire, around 1838-1842. It is a melodeon (lap organ) with a rectangular rosewood and maple case, double bellows, 8 soundholes, ivory buttons (29 naturals. 20 accidentals), 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.378539
- catalog number
- 378539
- accession number
- 143839
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- Description
- 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 reed organ was made by George A. Prince & Co. in Buffalo, New York, around 1860-1865. It is a double keyboard melodeon, with a compass of FF-f3, and 2 pedals. The organ’s stop list is as follows:
- Principal ForteDiapason ForteCouplerDivided Swell
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1860-1865
- ID Number
- MI.74.04
- catalog number
- 74.04
- accession number
- 307852
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- Description
- This reed organ was made by John M. Scott, in Cadiz, Ohio, around 1860-1865. It is a piano style melodeon marketed as “Melo-Pean.” It has a single keyboard, with a compass of FF - f4. Above the keyboard is stenciled:
- MELO-PEANMANUFACTURED BYJOHN M. SCOTTCADIZ, O.
- There are two repair notes:
- (Inside the chest):
- Repaired Sept. 9, 1912 by Scott Rowe
- (outside the chest):
- J. T. Scott Tuner, Aug. 22nd, 1865
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1860-1865
- ID Number
- MI.248305
- catalog number
- 248305
- accession number
- 47966
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- Description
- This reed organ was made by Melo-Pean Co. in Akron, Ohio, around 1860-1865. It is a piano style melodeon, with a rosewood case. This melodeon has a single keyboard with a compass of FF - f4, and two pedals. There is a stencil above the keyboard:
- Melo-Pean Co.AKRON, OHIO
- (handwritten inscription inside the case):
- Repaired Sept. 9, 1912 by Scott RoweJ.T. Scott Tuner, Aug. 22, 1865
- This instrument was donated in memory of the family of Professor Nellie O. Rowe, who was Director of the Conservatory of Music, College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio, from 1915-1946.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1860-1865
- ID Number
- MI.74.01
- catalog number
- 74.01
- accession number
- 307855
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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 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 voicing table organ was made by David Moore in North Pomfret, Vermont, in 1978-1979. The organ wind chest dates from an 1856 Stevens and Jewett instrument, reconstructed as demonstration action model.
- A voicing table is a windchest with a visible wind supply (foot operated in this case). These voicing tables were standard equipment in all nineteenth century American organ builders' shops. This one was made (windchest and keyboard) in Boston about 1856 in the shop of George Stevens and James Jewett, significant builders of their time.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1978
- ID Number
- MI.79.01
- accession number
- 1978.2262
- catalog number
- 79.01
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- Description
- This organ was made by The Rudolf Wurlitzer Company in North Tonowanda, New York, in 1952. It is an electrostratic reed organ, known as an Orgatron, model 4600, serial #18421.
- This instrument was developed in 1934 and manufactured by Everett Piano Company from 1935 to 1941. The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company secured the patents from Everett in 1945. Wurlitzer produced these instruments and retained the Everett names on some models from 1945 to 1947. Orgatrons continued to be produced into the early 1960s.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1952
- maker
- Rudolph Wurlitzer Company
- ID Number
- 1994.0035.01
- serial number
- 18421
- model number
- 4600
- accession number
- 1994.0035
- catalog number
- 1994.0035.01
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- Description
- This reed organ was made by Estey Organ Co. in Brattleboro, Vermont, around, 1895-1905. It is a church model organ, with 2 keyboards, and a pedalboard. The white painted finish is not original. The instrument is stenciled:
- Estey Organ Co. Brattleboro, Vt U.S.A.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1895-1905
- ID Number
- 1989.0190.01
- accession number
- 1989.0190
- catalog number
- 1989.0190.01
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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 organ was made by Allen Organ Company in Macungie, Pennsylvania, in 1971. It is a Digital Computer organ, System 300 model, with two keyboards, pedalboard, and bench. Accessioned with original owner's manual, "how-to" sheet, tone card instruction books, set of (43) tone cards, two Allen speakers (#23264 and #23265) and reference materials.
- Originally designed for use in churches, the Allen all-digital electronic organ was perfect for smaller churches that lacked the space (or resources) for a traditional pipe organ. The organ was installed in St. Andrews's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Easton, Pennsylvania in 1971. It was replaced with a larger Allen organ in 1994.
- The all-digital organ made by Allen was one of the first to use digital sampling but also LSI (large scale integrated) devices. The Allen Organ Company worked with Rockwell International, an aerospace company and a key player in the development of the Apollo space program, to develop the technology to produce a digital musical instrument. After two years of development, the Allen Digital Computer Organ was introduced to the world at a press conference at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, in 1971.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1971
- user
- St. Andrew's Evangelical Lutheran Church
- maker
- Allen Organ Company
- ID Number
- 2004.0206.01
- accession number
- 2004.0206
- catalog number
- 2004.0206.01
- maker number
- AC109
- 23264
- 23265
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- Description
- This pipe organ was made by E. and G.G. Hook & Hastings, in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1872. It is a No. 4 model, opus #676 with a single keyboard, with a compass of C - a3 and pedals, with a compass of C – d. The organ’s disposition is as follows:
- 8' Open Diapason Bass (C – b, lower pipes stopped wood)8’ Open Diapason ( c1 – a3)8' Unison Bass ( C – b, wood)8' Stopped Diapason (c1 – a3, wood and metal)8' Dulciana (c – a3, metal)4' Octave (C – a3, metal)Violina Bass (c – b, metal)4' Flute (c1 – a3, metal)16' Sub BassPedale coupler
- The company was started in 1827 by brothers Elias and George Greenleaf Hook. In 1871, Frank Hastings joined the firm, and the name was changed to E. and G.G. Hook & Hastings. This pipe organ was one of the stock organs made in several sizes by the Hook and. Hastings firm during the latter part of the nineteenth century. The organ cost $ 1,000, with 10 stops and 305 pipes, according to a brochure printed in 1871.
- Location
- Currently not on view (organ case panels)
- Currently not on view
- Currently not on view (organ parts)
- Currently not on view (organ pipes)
- date made
- 1872
- ID Number
- MI.76.17
- accession number
- 322668
- catalog number
- 76.17
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- Description
- This pipe organ was made by Thomas Appleton in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1844. It has a single keyboard, with a compass of GG – f (no GG#), and pedal. The organ’s disposition is as follows:
- 8' Open Diapason, bass and treble (break at f# / g)8' Stopped Diapason8' Dulciana (from g)8' Hautboy (from g) (rare and original pipes)4' Principal (full compass)2 2/3' Twelfth2' Fifteenth4' FlutePedal (GG-g)Pulldowns only
- This organ was built for the Free Street Baptist Church, Portland, Maine, and moved in 1872 by E. and G. G. Hook to the Baptist Church, Buxton, Maine. It was rescued in 1961 by Peter Perkins and acquired by Charles Fisk in 1964. It was first lent to St. Stephen's Church, Boston, 1965-1967. After a time in the Fisk shop in Gloucester, Massachusetts, it was lent to Our Lady of Good Voyage Church in Gloucester, and then acquired by the Smithsonian in 1982.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Currently not on view (bench)
- Currently not on view (organ parts in blueboard boxes)
- Currently not on view (pipes)
- Currently not on view (wooden pipes, wind trunk)
- Currently not on view (organ parts)
- Currently not on view (bellows, wind chest)
- ID Number
- 1982.0791.01
- accession number
- 1982.0791
- catalog number
- 1982.0791.01
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1850
- ID Number
- 2018.0285.01
- accession number
- 2018.0281
- catalog number
- 2018.0285.01
