Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-07-03
.ESTEYS BIG NEW ORGAN.
TO BE SHIPPED TO COLORADO SPRINGS
CHURCH VERY SHORTLY.
Private Exhibition Given to few Invited Guests
at the Company's Works Monday Evening
Prof. Kern Of Philadelphia the Performer
Large and Enthusiastic Audience Present.

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A most appreciative audience wa
entertained for two hours or more a
the Estey factory Monday night, wher
the magnificent pipe organ, designed
by William E. Haskell, superintend
ent of the pipe organ department o.
the Estey Organ Co., for the First
Methodist Episcopal church at Colo
RADIO Springs, was most charmingly ex
hibited through the courtesy OF Col.
J. Gray Estey, Prof Edgar Kern Of
Philadelphia presiding at the key.
board.
The organ, which is the largest, as il
certainly is the finest yet constructed
by this company, was exhibited in the
erecting room. The handsome instru-
ment is to replace an organ recently in
stalled in the Colorado church but
which was removed without cost on
account of not being satisfactory, an
Estey being preferred in its place.
In size this new organ is % feet
wide, 10 feet in depth and 20 feet
high, some of the pipes being at least
19 feet in height. Its style, Italian
Renaissance, is strikingly handsome
with its malachite green coloring rich
" decorated in harmonious tints with
a furnishing of gold
The organ is two manual with sys-
tenn of concave pedals The scheme in
cludes 427 notes in the great organ, 59S
in the swell organ, with 60 notes in
the pedal organ: these, beside the
couplers, pedal movements and me-
chanical accessories. There are at
least 1850 pipes in this remarkable in
strument. The stop action is espec-
tally deserving of notice. Under the
name of the Haskell patented register
keys, the best possible substitute for
the old system of draw-stop action COM
mends itself This patent consists of
an abridged keyboard placed just
above the manual keys. The white
key, which is substituted for the or
dinary draw stop, when depressed
brings into play the register of the
pipes or couplers indicated; and its al
ternating black key, when depressed,
closes this register This system of
opening and closing the registers is ex-
simple and reliable. 1t is
in its workings and affords
,he least possible resistance. There is
S no possibility for register to be left
drawn thus putting the organ
,ut of tune, it being wholly open or
,ntirely closed and instantaneous in |
is working.
The Haskell system makes possible |
many changes in registration hereto |
ore unattainable because key or |
.roup of keys may be depressed with |
me stroke of the hand, and released |
With equal facility. This invention re-
ieves the front of the organ of the
ows of stop knobs which always make
'ecessary large console or key
Everything about this great organ
t once appeals to tie organist as the
most favorable instrument under all
The Estey reputation for
he very highest grade Of instruments
5 sufficient in itself to guarantee
tide sale of the pipe organ. Already
he firm has large number of waiting
rders for church organs, nearly 80,
the fact that this in
ustry is less than two years old.
Prof. Kern's program included
Tide range of selections, all of which
-ere executed in an intelligent man.
er, illustrating the quality and ca
acity of the great organ. The cost of
MS organ is about $1,000 and it is ex-
ected that it will be shipped to its
estimation within fortnight.
Among those present were several
lends from out of town together with
[rs. Florence G. Estey, Mrs. Annie
!. Cobb. Mrs. j. G. Estey, Mr.. and
[rs. William E. Haskell and daugh-
IT, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Frink, Mr..
I'D Mrs. L. W. Hawley and family, j. +,
Ullery, Walter H. Childs, Misses !
attic Holden and Izetta Stewart,
.ajor +. W. Childs and large num-
Or of the townspeople, lovers Of music !!
I'd especially interested in Brattle-
,ro's leading industry.