“We’re pulling out all the stops, at ‘This Place in History’!įor more from our ‘This Place in History’ series, click here. It’s opened Saturday and Sunday afternoons from two to four, and you can come and play every single one of these organs,” concluded George. The museum is not heated so it’s only opened from May to October. People can come and drive around the complex anytime and enjoy all the slate-sided buildings.
“Was this the largest reed organ manufacturer in the world?” asked Perkins. There were more than 20 and probably now there’s only about 15 or something because the company went out of business in 1960 and people came along and did different things with all the buildings,” explained George. “I’m pretty sure in the 1890s they must have been Brattleboro’s biggest employer.” The reed organs went to India, China, Japan, all over Europe and they’re all still there,” said George.Īll of the on-site buildings were part of the Estey Organ Company. He got into the organ business and eventually he had six or seven hundred employees up here in the factory and made half a million reed organs and three thousand pipe organs, which was a business they got into in 1904.”įounder Jacob Estey made quite a name for himself. Credit Line Museum purchase with funds by exchange from the Gift of Wolfe. The fellow who founded it was actually an entrepreneur and he never played the organ or anything like that. They were popular before people were able to make inexpensive pianos. But it’s still a wind instrument, very much like a harmonica or an accordion. “I brought this along because this is what a pipe organ has, which you can see is very different. Every one of these has a whole bunch of those inside,” explained George. “A reed organ is a wind instrument that looks like a piano, but inside are reeds. Inside the Estey Organ Museum, volunteer Barbara George joined us to tell us more about this company. We’re going to go check it out,” introduced Perkins. “We’re going to be talking about the Estey Organ Company, one of the largest, if not the largest, reed organ companies in the world in the 19th Century. Once in a while when we were returning home at noon time we could have the honor of our ears being blasted as the noon day whistle was blown.At ‘This Place in History’, we’re in Brattleboro with Executive Director of the Vermont Historical Society Steve Perkins. The machinery inside the buildings could be heard humming, and many times we heard the pipes being played. I remember hearing the men stacking the lumber to air dry in the Estey yard, as well as the chatter as they worked. One of the buildings now houses the Estey Organ Museum the entire. Oh, on the early, foggy mornings, especially in September, as we trudged the street above the Estey factory buildings, the odor of freshly sawed wood was savored. Estey Organ Company was an organ manufacturer based in Brattleboro, Vermont. The Estey Organ Museum is located in the center of the Estey Organ Company factory complex at 108 Birge Street in Brattleboro, Vermont. We would walk on Organ St., above the Estey factory. I walked to school, every day, picked up my girlfriend, who lived on Cherry St. Kindergarten was in The Green Street School. in the house which Dad had built in the late 1920's. At that time we lived on the corner of Maple and Belmont Sts. "One cherished memory dates back to my kindergarten days in the 1930's. Although there have been some modifications to the instrument over the years, including electrification of the key and stop action in 1958, the organ maintains the Estey sounds which were so much in demand in the first half of the last century. The centennial recital was presented by Frederick Hohmann on March 24, 2006. Archer Gibson of New York’s Brick Presbyterian Church. The dedicatory recital was played on Februby S.
Julius Jacob Estey (1845-1902) by his sons Jacob Gray Estey and Julius Harry Estey. The 29 stop Estey organ was given in memory of Gen. Since 1962 he has presented more than 2800 organ recitals throughout the world.
From 1987 to 2004 he served as Municipal Organist at the Wiesbaden Kurhaus Concert Hall. Hielscher has been Director of Music at the Wiesbaden (Germany) Marktkirche, the Lutheran Cathedral, since 1979. Although featuring a wide variety of 19 th and 20 th century music, all selections showed off the warm, symphonic colors of this instrument. Selections heard were by composers Lester Groom, Noel Rawsthorne, Alexandre Guilmant, Enrico Pasini, Albert Ketelbey, Noel Goemanne and Franz von Suppe. This was his third performance for the Estey Museum. Organist Hans Hielscher presented a wonderful recital before an enthusiastic audience at Brattleboro’s First Baptist Church (Estey Opus 300) on Sunday, October 20, 2013.
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