Estey organ trinity church studio
One evening Frank explained that the decal on the piano’s fall board meant that it had been an Ampico Reproducing Piano. “The Chickering grand piano came with my wife when we married. An organ friend, Bruce Louden, who had a large collection of organ parts, but nothing playing, pulled up to my house one day with a Deagan Vibra Harp, which is behind the organ and all the Toy Counter instruments you see above the organ and said “connect these things so I can hear them” Over the years he would visit and enjoy HIS organ in my organ.” “As you can see in the picture of the organ in our home above there seems to more to it. Fred Feibel had designed it as a theatre organ, but it was also very suitable for church work. I got the organ in June of 1962 and that December we had our first pipe organ New Year’s Eve Party, with one rank, the Tibia Clausa (flute) playing.” The unique properties of the organ were soon realized. With the help and excellent directions from Frank Cimmino, the organ was assembled. “He visited me once a week and gave me my instructions for that week’s work. Through my wife’s’ sister we met Frank Cimmino who kindly, after telling us it was an organ, agreed to help me assemble this monstrous jigsaw puzzle.” It arrived as a complete organ but all in bits and pieces with no directions for assembly.” So I dragged it home (physically), not knowing what damage I was doing to the relay switches. We felt that it might be used in the church where she was the organist. She thought the kids at school had gotten to me (He was a physical ed teacher). Up until this time I had never seen pipes up close. I called my wife and asked her if WE wanted a pipe organ. The teacher in conversation told me she was throwing out this organ. She had gotten it from her minister who had it donated to him years earlier. “I got my Estey from a music teacher I worked with. Theatre organs have a history of traveling, and this Estey was no exception.