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Pettigrew & Oulton’s Dublin Almanac for 1842; The Dublin Almanac and General Register of Ireland, 1843; Slater’s Commercial Directory of Ireland 1846, page 126; Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory, with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, 1850; The Irish Industrial Exhibition, of 1853: A Detailed Catalogue of Its Contents
The company split up in 1897 where Farrand and Votey each specialized in their own type of organs with new firms. [4] Farrand became president of Farrand Organ Company which specialized in manufacturing just reed organs. By 1905 his company employed over four hundred skilled workers manufacturing reed organs, pianos, and mechanical players.
In the early 1960s the factory making the German organ reeds used in the Indian sub-continent for harmoniums, having changed hands several times and now situated in post World War II East Germany (GDR), was taken over by the communist government and the reed making machinery was scrapped. This marked the end of German reed production.
This is a list of Irish military installations occupied by the Defence Forces (including Army, Air Corps, Naval Service and Reserve Defence Forces) in the Republic of Ireland by province and overseas. The Irish Defence Forces maintains approximately 20,000 acres of land for military training in the state. [1]
Organ Supply Industries, Incorporated is a pipe organ parts manufacturer founded in 1924 as the Organ Supply Corporation in Erie, Pennsylvania. With over 46,000 square feet (4,300 m 2 ) of manufacturing floor, it is the largest organ parts supplier in North America .
A hand-pumped Indian harmonium, of the type used in South Asia, here used at a European jazz festival.. The pump organ or reed organ is a type of organ using free-reeds that generates sound as air flows past the free-reeds, the vibrating pieces of thin metal in a frame.
The Cable Company (earlier, Wolfinger Organ Company, Chicago Cottage Organ Company; sometimes called by the name of its subsidiary, The Cable Piano Company) was an American manufacturer and distributor of pianos and reed organs that operated independently from 1880 to 1936.
Drawings of the reeds of regals and other reed pipes, as well as of the instrument itself, are given by Praetorius (pl. iv., xxxviii.). The regal may be seen as the ancestor of the harmonium, the reed organ, and the various varieties of "squeezebox" such as the accordion, the concertina, and the Bandoneón.