Chancel Organ


 


 
"That the Estey Organ Company are pioneers in the line of Church , Chapel, or Chancel Organs
may be inferred from the fact that upwards of nine thousand organs of this kind alone have been
manufactured by them up to this time.
"For many years the chief reliance of the average country church was the Aeolian, Melodian or
Seraphine--small in compass, limited in capacity and unsatisfactory in many ways.
These crude instruments were in time succeeded by the "Cottage Organ," different in construction,
more convenient, and with enlarged capacity.  Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of these found
their way into public places, and "served well their day and generation."  However, with the
advent of the Moody and Sankey movement, however, and the well-nigh universal
use of a Reed Organ as an accompaniment to singing in public meetings, came the demand
for an organ of larger scope, so designed that the player could face the audience and not
be hidden by the instrument. Through various evolutions therefore has come the
Chancel Organ--which for capacity, grace and richness of design and thorough mechanical
construction has no equal."
                                                                                                                 --1896 Catalog


Style 330

Two Full Five-Octave Sets of Reeds, with Vox Humana, Sub-Bass, Octave Coupler, &c.  

Eleven Stops: Diapason, Vox Jubilante, Melodia, Viola, Dolce, Dulciana, Sub-Bass, Vox Humana, Harmonique Coupler, I. Forte, II. Forte

Style 331

Three Full Five-Octave Sets of Reeds, with Vox Humana, Sub-Bass, Octave Coupler, Grand Organ, Knee Swell &c. 

Thirteen Stops: Diapason, Flute, Vox Jubilante, Violetta, Melodia, Viola, Dolce, Dulciana, Sub-Bass, Vox Humana, Harmonique Coupler, I. Forte, II. Forte

Style 334 Five Octaves of Diapason-Melodia Reeds, Five Octaves of Flute-Viola Reeds, Five Octaves of Clarinet-Bourdon Reeds, Two and one-half Octaves of Wald Flute Reeds (brilliant), Two and one-half Octaves of Cornetto Reeds (beautiful effects), One Octave of extremely powerful Manual Sub-Bass Reeds, the Harmonique Coupler, with Vox Humana, &c.  Fifteen Stops.


Photos courtesy of Jerry Aldrich


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