They sold these throughout the 1990s, exclusively through their chain of retail stores. The models included a lifetime free lesson program. Later historyįletcher Music Centers purchased the Estey Organ company name in 1989, and subsequently produced several models of home organs. At Estey, he helped develop the Estey Electronic Organ model S and AS-1 (1954), then served as a chief engineer and a vice-president of Estey during the late 1950s. He had been a pioneer in the research and development of electronic musical instrument since the 1930s, and had developed the Bode Organ in 1951. Estey Organ after World War IIįollowing World War II, Estey developed and manufactured electronic organs, joining a limited number of companies that manufactured all three types of organs-reed, pipe, and electronic. The company provided organs for many important locations, including New York City's Capital Theatre, the Sacramento, CA Municipal Auditorium, and Henry Ford's home in Dearborn, Michigan.Īlso during the era of silent films, Estey made over 160 theatre organs. They built and sold more than 3200 pipe organs across the US and abroad. In 1901, Estey Organ Company began making pipe organs, and became one of the largest American pipe organ manufacturers.
It made more than 520,000 instruments, all labeled Brattleboro, Vt. 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.Over its more than one hundred years, Estey became the largest and best known manufacturer of reed organs in the world. 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.
At ‘This Place in History’, we’re in Brattleboro with Executive Director of the Vermont Historical Society Steve Perkins.
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