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How a 19th century instrument helped to shape New World culture.
The Estey Organ Company (1846-1960) produced over a half-million reed organs and 3,000 pipe organs in Brattleboro, Vermont. Dennis Waring's scholarly treatise on the Estey company reveals important connections between music and musical instruments with evolving American sensibilities, manufacturing and technological industrialism, marketing and advertising, international trade, social stratification, gender issues, emerging popular culture and general insight into Victorian Americana.
Organ, Volume 3 of the Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments, includes articles on the organ family of instruments, including famous players, composers, instrument builders, the construction of the instruments and related terminology. It is the first complete reference on this important family of keyboard instruments that predated the piano. The contributors include major scholars of music and musical instruments from around the world.
Covers the history, construction, manufacturing, tuning, restoration, and music of these classic American and European parlor instruments.
The Encyclopedia of Organ includes articles on the organ family of instruments, including famous players, composers, instrument builders, the construction of the instruments, and related terminology. It is the first complete A-Z reference on this important family of keyboard instruments. The contributors include major scholars of music and musical instrument history from around the world.