If you have ANY additional questions about the item please email before the close and we will be happy to answer you. However, most of the items we sell are USED and VINTAGE and will show a natural amount of aging. We take great care to describe each item honestly and accurately. We ship daily Monday- Friday* Next day ship* No handling fees* New York State buyers must pay your applicable Sales Tax* Best to wait for invoice for accurate tax. more men or arrange for movers for local pick up only- you arrange it. This style organ is often found in historic homes& churches. 61.5" at widest(2 lower lamp stands) base approx. The only damage we see to the wood is the right front foot- it was likely placed near an open window- can easily be restored also, there is damage to the housing for the foot pedals- see close ups. We removed the worst dust to reveal the natural patina of this fine piece of furniture. We know very little about organs, but believe it is all intact. Late 1800's to early 1900's parlor organ.
The Minshall Organs, which were considerably cheaper than similar competing models, had a reputation for unreliability and problems with pitch drifting of the overheating tubes.Antique Pump Organ Estey Organ Co Brattleboro VT* Works* Gorgeous Victorian furniture! Made by Estey Organ Co in Brattleboro VT USA. The Instruments produced sound using 52 vacuum tubes mostly 12AU7s or 12AX7s – using 3 tubes per tone generator, one as a phase shift oscillator and five sections as RC frequency dividers.
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Tone generator cabinet showing the vacuum tubes and speakers of the Minshall Organ (image copyright Swartko) The Minshall company finally came to an end in 1955 Burton Minshall became ill, sold all of his shares in the company and eventually died in 1957. In 1947 Minshall’s company merged with Estey to form ‘Minshall-Estey Organ Inc’ where they continued to produce electronic organs based ion Minshall’s designs until 1954 when Minshall severed ties with Estey. Minshall’s original plant in Ontario Canada moved in 1946 to Brattleboro, Vermont USA due to the proximity of Estey Organ Co – a well known and established manufacturer of reed organs. This first amateur design eventually lead to the establishment of a successful organ manufacturing company selling mainly to churches and funeral parlours as well as the home organ market. Minshall’s design was originally intended as a home build project. Numerous electronic organs were produced during the 1950s in what became a fiercely competitive market, eventually dominated by companies such as Hammond, Conn and Gulbranson (who in turn were forced out by heavy competition from Japanese integrated circuit designs in the 1960s). These electronic tube organs were an early post war design – targeting a new and affluent US middle class and competing with tone wheel, pipe and reed based organs. The Minshall range of electronic Organs were designed by the ex-radio repairman Burton Minshall (Born Dereham Township, Oxford, Ontario, Canada 9th aug 1907 .
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