These organs are of museum caliber, and deserve the finest restoration and preservation possible. It will be a true showpiece after total restoration. Note the beautifully carved cabinet and elaborate fretwork. This organ has been very well preserved, and is in very good original condition. These instruments were most popular in the 1890s era, and were all but extinct by the first decade of the 20th Century due to the popularity of the player piano. This would have been one of the earliest types of pneumatically operated automatic musical instruments ever produced, and was the forerunner of the 20th Century player piano as we know it. It requires some technique, and no small. This organ was the first instrument in the Aeolian line to play their expanded 58 note perforated music roll. It is played, as you might expect, by pumping the two foot pedals alternately, to force air through the reed mechanism. The firm that produced this organ was originally known as the Mechanical Orguinette Company, and then later changed to the ∺eolian Organ & Music Company, then ultimately ∺eolian. The Aeolian Grand Player Reed Organ was the first keyboard-type player reed organ to be sold in quantity.
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