Keyboardless Player Organ Console In Old Mansion
By John Grant
What odd circumstances. I'm inclined to say the organ console is
Aeolian although I personally have never seen one that could not be
hand played. It appears the normal Aeolian controls (Play/Rewind,
Tempo and manual switching) are on the front apron just left of center.
The visible roll is probably a 176-note scale, although it looks
slightly smaller, but it's definitely wider than the 58/116-note scale.
Five swell shoes is definitely unusual and I wonder if the reason they
are so narrow is to preclude accidental movement of more than one at a
time by untrained operators. Some close-ups of the beast would reveal
a lot. Also curious about pipe chambers and anything remaining in them.
I can find no entry in the Organ Historical Society Database that would
seem to match this curiosity: http://database.organsociety.org/
The 6-legged piano appears to be a Weber Duo-Art.
John Grant
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