![]() ![]() The Estey Organ Company was extremely influential to Brattleboro and the surrounding area in the late 1800s and early- to mid-1900s, employing around 600 people at its peak. Many people in Brattleboro know about the Estey Organ Company, established by Jacob Estey in 1855, and some even remember when it was still operating. ![]() There were also photos of Estey organs being used in different locations, like churches and even people's homes. Every piece had to be exactly the right size in order for the notes on the organ to sound right. In another room there were photographs on the wall showing the many steps it took to successfully make an organ. It was a very complicated machine that created extraordinary music! The organ's low sounds came from manipulating foot pedals, mid-range sounds came from one keyboard and high-range sounds came from another. If you walked behind it while someone was playing, you could see the different parts moving that made the sound. One exhibit had an organ meant to go in a church that had 450 pipes coming out of it. When we arrived inside the museum, many students experimented with playing the 100-plus-year-old organs, which we found to be very different from pianos. At the museum's entrance we met John Carnahan who told us about the museum and the history of the Estey Organ Company. This past week students from the Brattleboro Area Middle School visited the Estey Organ Museum on Birge Street as part of a project to learn more about our community's past. ![]()
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