While visiting a trade show in Montreal, Burton Minshall met Jacob "Jay" Estey and the result of the meeting was the creation of the Minshall Estey Corporation in June 1944. partner could provide reed organs capable of easy modification. The Minshalls figured they would provide the electronic components while a U.S. They sold well and the Minshalls looked to expand to the United States. Minshall marketed the modified organ to funeral homes and small churches in Canada and met with success.ĭuring the early 1940s Minshall produced kits for hobbyists to assemble electronic reed organs and continued to produce his own modified organs. They brought a modified reed organ to a local church to see if there was interest in such an instrument and the church placed the first order for a Minshall organ. Burton and Maddie both liked the results and saw a business opportunity. His wife, Maddie, was a pianist and she asked her husband to modify an old reed organ so it would produce sounds closer to a larger, more powerful pipe organ. Uwe Pape, The Tracker Organ Revival in America, (Berlin: Pape Verlag, 1978), 36, 60.BRATTLEBORO - In the 1930s Burton Minshall was a radio repairman in Ontario, Canada.1 (Pasadena: Showcase Publications, 1985), 105. David Junchen, Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ, vol.Gellerman, Gellerman's International Reed Organ Atlas (Vestal, NY: The Vestal Press, 1985), 43. Putnam Thomas Radley Francis Ratti Premo F. 1901 bankrupt, 1933 firm reorganized agents for Rieger Organs of Austria, 1953 firm closed, 1959 corporate relationship with Estey Corporation of Delaware, and Minshall-Estey. Fuller, 1866 firm renamed Estey Organ Co., 1872 began pipe organ production, c. Estey & Co., reed organs, by Jacob Estey, Riley Burditt, Silas Waite, and Joel Bullard in Brattleboro, Vermont, 1863 successor to the firms of Burditt & Carpenter, Isaac Hines & Co., and Estey & Green firm reorganized by Jacob Estey, Julius J. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991).
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We received the most recent update for this note from Database Managerįrom the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H.
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The OHS Database lists 249 Estey organs that were 3 manuals or larger. Estey concentrated on stock model two-manual instruments and regarded any deviation in size and specification as a "Special" job." Some of their special jobs were as large as four manuals, however, and were found in larger churches, civic auditoriums and colleges. The stop actions included such oddities as the "stop key" and "luminous" types, and while the organs were built of excellent materials, they were often so compact that maintenance was expensive and nearly impossible to perform.
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The large Estey factory continued to build reed organs.ĭuring the first decades of the century, the Estey catalogs described standard designs, the stoplists having no upperwork (no mutations, fifteenths or mixtures) and that Haskell specialty, a labial reed stop.Ī typical stop list had three or four unison stops and a single octave stop on each manual and a 16 foot stopped bass for the pedal. Estey instruments used tubular-pneumatic or electro-pneumatic action. During the next fifty-nine years, the company built and rebuilt 3261 pipe organs. Haskell (1865-1927), to open the pipe organ department in 1901. "The Estey Organ Company manufactured excellent reed organs for more than half a century before engaging the Roosevelt-trained Philadelphia builder, William E. From OHS Database Builders editor, November 6, 2015.
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