i remember as a kid in the 70s going to church with my grandma and us kids playing around with an old organ round by the vestry, i remember us kids pumping those things with our feet and pressing the keys and hearing those sounds. i wished i had made note of the brand but i'm sure it must have been very old, maybe the first one the church ever owned. the operational organ was also a pump organ as there was no electricity in that area to operate electrical or electronic instruments. i'm really fascinated by antique technology.
I found a Mason and Hamlin organ in an abandoned apartment. Beautiful piece of work. Unfortunately, it was worn out. About a dozen reeds were broken, the woodwork was damaged beyond economical repair, and much of the mechanism was unsalvageable. Always wondered what it would have sounded like. Good video.
excellent demonstration of the stops and parts of this particular instrument. our historical soc. in town was just given one of these instruments and since i am both a music instructor and band instrument repair tech i felt that this u tube clip gives our group a sort of instruction manual for the capabilities of our new acquisition. thank you for taking the time to create it.
Hi. Am from Chennai,India. We have one in good working condition. Not much of playing now,though it is a real pleasure to keep playing and listening to. Thank you for the upload and the demo. Very useful for the uninformed folks like me.
@Ela Lamblin If you're looking for organs and pump organs, there's a good chance you'll find them in churches (though I'm not sure about American churches).
Thanks for this tutorial. I just got old Choicago Cottage pump reed organ. It has Diapason, Dolce and Violin on bass side and Dolce, Melodia and Vox Celeste on the diskant side. Two octaves bass and three diskant. Wonder which stops should match....naturally Dolce covers the whole manual when selected via three different knobs.
Interesting information. I have restored a Putnam & Sons built in Staunton, VA and a Cornish built in Washington, NJ. These old melodia reed organs deserve a special place in the history of American manufacturing. What a pity many are being lost due to a lack of proper appreciation. I appears Ms. Wodehouse has several different reed instruments in the collection.
I love Reed organ music for playing same copy of melody on both of the hands with addition of two more keys in between which gives the effect of woodwind quartet and dual melody (primary melody on right hand with secondary melody on left hand) with addition of three more keys which sounds like woodwind quintet. Such effects gives sense of warmth (pleasant and energetic sense) when I am vexed or lazy. When played as single melody notes on right hand only it gives sense of cooling (makes me to calm down and sleep) when I am tired of long time working and wants to sleep. By pulling out and pushing in the draw knobs it causes to imitate different wind or bowed stringed musical instruments like higher octave clarinet, alto or soprano saxophone, harmonica, flute, melodica, piccolo for right hand octaves and tenor saxophone, lower octave of clarinet, cello, bassoon and contra bass for left hand octaves.
Yes, named after Franz Liszt. William Mason, one of Liszt's earlier pupils and an important American pianist/pedagogue studied with Liszt, and that was how the connection was made.
I just bought a Mason and Hamin organ. Would you know any way of dating it? It looks like yours, but not as nice and maybe a couple years older. Thanks
chandrasekhar R : it is a very rare chance that one could get hold of it now. These are pure vintage works of rare art now. Anyhow keep checking with the churches and thro some of the cine musicians'associations. Take a picture of this along. Good luck. Best wishes.
Excellent explanation of this unusually complex instrument. Great photography and sound also.
i remember as a kid in the 70s going to church with my grandma and us kids playing around with an old organ round by the vestry, i remember us kids pumping those things with our feet and pressing the keys and hearing those sounds. i wished i had made note of the brand but i'm sure it must have been very old, maybe the first one the church ever owned. the operational organ was also a pump organ as there was no electricity in that area to operate electrical or electronic instruments. i'm really fascinated by antique technology.
I found a Mason and Hamlin organ in an abandoned apartment. Beautiful piece of work. Unfortunately, it was worn out. About a dozen reeds were broken, the woodwork was damaged beyond economical repair, and much of the mechanism was unsalvageable. Always wondered what it would have sounded like. Good video.
Piano Cased Reed Organs w/ up to 88 Keys (maybe more) are really great for Pianists that want an Organ sound
excellent demonstration of the stops and parts of this particular instrument.
our historical soc. in town was just given one of these instruments and since i am both a music instructor and band instrument repair tech i felt that this u tube clip gives our group a sort of instruction manual for the capabilities of our new acquisition.
thank you for taking the time to create it.
thank you for such a thorough description of all of the ins and outs of the pump organ
williamgatesenson Its great that there are people such as you interested in this instrument!
Sorry, Ela, I don't know anyone offhand. Thanks for your kind words!
Hi. Am from Chennai,India. We have one in good working condition. Not much of playing now,though it is a real pleasure to keep playing and listening to. Thank you for the upload and the demo. Very useful for the uninformed folks like me.
@Ela Lamblin If you're looking for organs and pump organs, there's a good chance you'll find them in churches (though I'm not sure about American churches).
Thanks for this tutorial. I just got old Choicago Cottage pump reed organ. It has Diapason, Dolce and Violin on bass side and Dolce, Melodia and Vox Celeste on the diskant side. Two octaves bass and three diskant. Wonder which stops should match....naturally Dolce covers the whole manual when selected via three different knobs.
Fabulous video! It could have been an hour long and I would have enjoyed every second of it.
Excellent video. Thank you.
Interesting information. I have restored a Putnam & Sons built in Staunton, VA and a Cornish built in Washington, NJ. These old melodia reed organs deserve a special place in the history of American manufacturing. What a pity many are being lost due to a lack of proper appreciation. I appears Ms. Wodehouse has several different reed instruments in the collection.
I love Reed organ music for playing same copy of melody on both of the hands with addition of two more keys in between which gives the effect of woodwind quartet and dual melody (primary melody on right hand with secondary melody on left hand) with addition of three more keys which sounds like woodwind quintet. Such effects gives sense of warmth (pleasant and energetic sense) when I am vexed or lazy. When played as single melody notes on right hand only it gives sense of cooling (makes me to calm down and sleep) when I am tired of long time working and wants to sleep. By pulling out and pushing in the draw knobs it causes to imitate different wind or bowed stringed musical instruments like higher octave clarinet, alto or soprano saxophone, harmonica, flute, melodica, piccolo for right hand octaves and tenor saxophone, lower octave of clarinet, cello, bassoon and contra bass for left hand octaves.
Thank you. I have a pump organ but I'm a flutist and had no idea what this thing did.
Roger Hodgson composed some of the Supertramp songs on one of these things.
I found a Lehr 7 Octave Piano Cased Reed Organ
The Dolce of both the 8 and 4 open a mute that behind the reed rather than the front mute in so much that the reed plays to the inside of the organ.
Most interesting.
Wonderful!
Thanks for watching!
GREAT
Thank you. really helpful. Yeah- how do you date it, and where is the serial number located?
What about the b flat before the middle c
Ach du lieber Augustine. Jah!
American instrument named after a Hungarian composer, called Liszt Ferenc (Franz Liszt)?
Yes, named after Franz Liszt. William Mason, one of Liszt's earlier pupils and an important American pianist/pedagogue studied with Liszt, and that was how the connection was made.
What is the name of the song played for the seraphone in the video?
Dankeschoen! I've heard this multiple times (without lyrics) and never known its name!
I just bought a Mason and Hamin organ. Would you know any way of dating it? It looks like yours, but not as nice and maybe a couple years older.
Thanks
Robin Gee look on the back
Where can i get this one ?
chandrasekhar R : it is a very rare chance that one could get hold of it now. These are pure vintage works of rare art now. Anyhow keep checking with the churches and thro some of the cine musicians'associations. Take a picture of this along. Good luck. Best wishes.
this is like a keyboard of a iberian pipe organ
radiohead motion picture soundtrack
Melodìa not melòdia (I feel like hermione)
Hahaha
Sergio Cerina ...but always pronounced Melòdia in English, where the word is used only as a reed-organ or pipe-organ stop name.
Btw wingardium leviosa