Mason & Hamlin Baby Reed Organ: Elegy Arioso |

Описание: A while back, prolific composer James Michael Stevens wrote a collection pieces suitable for an organ with one manual and no pedals. Today I tried to play one of them on my 1885 Mason & Hamlin Baby Reed organ, model 109. It has a small compass, so I had to tweak some notes a bit, but I guess you can’t hear the little modifications I had to make while playing. I think it sound lovely. And I’m sure it will make a certain organist from Lithuania jealous and another organist from Lithuania not jealous at all!

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This reed organ was made by Mason & Hamlin Organ Co. in Boston, Massachusetts, around 1880-1885. It is a portable reed organ, model 109 with a single manual, with a compass of F - g2, and two pedals. This instrument was sold by Mason & Hamlin as a "Baby" organ and was often used in children rooms and on river boats and yacht’s. It works, unlike French harmoniums, with suction and not with pressure. The effect is that the sound is softer and warmer, rounder. A lot of romantic organ composers, both American and in Europe especially in France have written pieces for reed organ and/of harmonium. Even the big names like Guilmant, Franck and Gigout. So it will be fun to discover those pieces on an authentic historical instrument.

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Played with the 1885 Mason & Hamlin Baby reed organ, type 109

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