Can anyone identify this Estey?

[Mr. Polecat]

It's 3 hours away, so I don't want to go that far if it's just a 2-rank parlor organ. But if it's something decent, I might..... It looks like it has more stops than the usual parlor organ, anyway.

Thanks, folks! :)

[Valiant Farmer]

I've played one very similar, it is a church organ, and the one I played, the subbass is comparable to Rodneys Berlin. 16' 8' Celeste 4' couplers and harp aeoline etc. Estey action 98, I believe.

Check this post out. the case is very similar. https://organforum.com/forums/forum/...ration-project

[Organfella]

You do not mention the asking price but if its for free or low $, go grab it. The case looks solid and there are enough stops fro thrilling you to bits... But do be prepared to do a little or more work on it. It certainly looks like a chapel model so would have been used pretty well. Notice the note values scribbled on some white keys. But still worth a six-hour drive....
Nico

[Mr. Polecat]

Thanks, gentlemen. It's a Craigslist organ, so still waiting for the owner to respond to my email. I hope it didn't disappear already!

[Mr. Polecat]

Update: I'm supposed to go get it on Sunday, assuming there are none of the depressingly usual "Craigslist flake-outs". It will be challenging to talk someone into spending their day riding down there and back with me to help load it, haha.

I find it peculiar that this instrument doesn't have the octave lengths printed on the stops.

[myorgan]

Congratulations, Polecat! I look forward to your updates when you get the organ.

Many pump organs do not have octave lengths printed on the stops, but you'll be able to hear them and easily discern what they are.

Michael

[Mr. Polecat]

And one last note: This one appears to have the same stop-list: https://www.reedsoc.org/index.php/ro...2500&itemID=69

Interesting that it appears to have no couplers.

[Mr. Polecat]

So from the simplicity of decoration, can we assume that this is a later model, like 1920s-1930s? It almost looks like the Z56 Artist organ, except it doesn't have the legs out front, and the stops are wrong. I don't think it's a Model O either. I haven't been able to turn up that case style in the reed organ database. Hrm...

[Organfella]

In the last picture of your first post one can see some rather obscure buttons or stops to the right of the row of stops. Those might even be the couplers you are missing although one cannot be sure. I have not come across the couplers being mounted in this manner. On an organ with that configuration and particularly if its a chapel model, it will certainly have couplers. Interesting find indeed. I hope you do get it and yes, do let us know how you get on. Safe driving!
Nico

[Mr. Polecat]

I think that stuff to the right is just the remains of the broken-off 17th stop laying there.

Perhaps it does have couplers, one at each end, and the "Harmonique" stop (as mentioned in the organ linked above with an *almost* identical stop list) is missing on the treble side. Even blowing up the image, I can't read the leftmost stop label well enough to see whether it says "Sub Bass" or "Bass Coupler".

I guess we'll hopefully find out come Sunday. It was listed for $0, but I offered them a $100 deposit via PayPal and another $100 cash on arrival if they'd hold onto it for me until the weekend. I guess if it turns out not to be something I want, I'll just give it to my sister for Christmas. But I have a feeling that even if it needs several things fixed, it'll be light-years better than my 2-rank 1914 parlor organ. And the extremely unusual stop-list will be worth entering in the reed organ database regardless.

[Organfella]

On some models the coupler stops are not the first or last ones from the ends. On my old Weaver the bass coupler sits about third from the left and the same with the treble coupler. However, couplers or not, you will likely be pleasantly surprised with this organ. $200 is a generous offer and I sincerely hope that you get it, even though you'll also be out the cost of the trip.
Nico

[SubBase]

This has the large-scale reeds (wider than key-scale), and may even have a 3" gap between the bass and treble halves of the reed board to admit the coupler-like spreader board needed to play the wide reeds. They have an awesome pervading sound far beyond anything else but a Vocalion-size action.

[Mr. Polecat]

Aha! I was hoping you'd weigh in on this one, sir. :D So that would make it one of the later Philharmonics? Not the 114, but the uh... "Style O"-era one?

(I'm just assuming "later-era" due to the comparative lack of decoration.)

Sounds like a worthy instrument! I'm starting to get anxious to get the thing home, haha.

Although does this also mean that it's really meant to be crank-winded rather than treadled? I would assume that the larger reeds require correspondingly more wind. I guess I might have to look into a blower.... (Nah, blowers are evil.)

But I suppose step #1 is to get it home. Then worry about the rest....

[SubBase]

I had one from 1894with the gap between bass/treble reeds. The later V-67 (mine was 1906) action had a fanboard instead of the spreader board, and no reed gap.

[Organfella]

Go get it bud!
Nico