The most common antique organ we see today is the parlor style pump organ because back in the 1880s, families would usually keep their pump organs in their parlor rooms (later called living rooms, today called family rooms). Incidentally, some of these brass reeds can be as small as 3/4 of an inch in length to over 5 inches.
#How to play pump organ series
For that reason, the lengths of the pipes vary like a series of steps to produce the notes of a musical scale.
But if the truth were known the pump organ industry, the people that built them, always called them reed organs because their sound is produced from brass reeds. When playing a recorder, the length of the air column can be changed by covering holes with ones fingers, but with a pipe organ this is not possible. This is a fascinating look at how a reed organ works and what is involved in completely restoring a pump organ to its original splendor. However, the one thing that almost all antique organs have in common is, you have to pump them with your feet, as a consequence, the general public came to call them pump organs. The pump organ is a type of free-reed organ that generates sound as air flows past a vibrating piece of thin metal in a frame. Take a picture tour of the inner workings of a typical 100 year old antique pump organ resoration at Pump Organ Restorations in Acworth, Georgia (a suburb of Atlanta). While some of these organs might have only a few stops (the dowel-like things that you can pull out) others could have over 20 stops.
#How to play pump organ manual
They range from the small lap organ to the fairly large and pretty heavy three manual (rows of keys) organ. Basically, there are 12 different types of antique organs. When someone tells me they have an antique organ, a number of organs come to mind. Most people would only be able to see a once-great instrument that had been damaged beyond repair, but not Kristi. Jeff or I will play the little pump organ we got at the thrift store. This is what the pump organ looked like when Kristi found it on its way to the dump.
#How to play pump organ registration
My guess is that you, like so many other people that own reed organs, don't know a whole lot about what makes them tick. The Reed Organ Society gave me a registration number, and a sticker which is up. Pickup and Delivery Available in the USA and Canadaīelow are a couple of dozen points of information that I've done on the reed organ. General Pump Organ Information - Pump Organ RestorationsĪmerica's Best Known Restorer of Antique Organs
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