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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.
William Raynolds Farrand (September 9, 1853 – August 15, 1930) was an American businessman, industrial designer, and manufacturer of pianos and organs. He was president of the Farrand Organ Company that specialized in manufacturing reed organs.
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.
In 1958, Magnus joined with television salesman Eugene Tracey, and their company went on to sell millions of inexpensive electric chord organs and song books [7] [8] until the late 1970s under the name Magnus Organ Corporation.
Rushworth and Dreaper was a firm of organ builders, and later general instrument suppliers associated with Paul McCartney, [1] based in Liverpool. [2] The manufacturer was founded in 1828 by William Rushworth. In the 1950s it absorbed Wilkinson, the Kendal organ builders. [3] It operated until 2002.
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.
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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 .