Great Swell Pedal Original cost - $920.71 |
Years ago I went into the Estey factory building in
Brattleboro after the company had gone out of business to see if I
could learn when my organ
was built. Although
the plant had ben closed for some time, it appeared, except for the dust
on the workbenches,
as if the employees had left the day before and were coming back.
Unfinished work in process, organ components, tools, gauges,
templates, etc. were still as
they had been set down.
On an office floor there were hundreds of old records containing
The pump handle was not there when I acquired the
organ. I removed the
feeder bellows and built a larger reservoir
installed underneath where
the feeders had been. The feeder's function had been replaced
much
earlier by a Kinetic blower driven by a 110 volt,
1/3 hp motor.
The original feeder bellows could be releathered
and installed should
the owner wish to do a more nearly original
restoration. The key and
pipe valve pneumatics have all been
releathered.
George
Shuppert