Estey didn't have prospects in the electric organ market in the 1940s, and Minshall had no desire to get into reed organs so the relationship would have been mutually beneficial arrangement. Most likely, Minshall's choice of Brattleboro for a US-based manufacturing center was due to proximity to Estey, and for the purpose of buying organ subassemblies from Estey. Minshall's founder and namesake was Burton Minshall, a radio repairman who initially engineered and built his first organ for his wife. Minshall entered the organ market with tube based electric organs, in Ontario, Canada and opened a plant in Brattleboro in the 1940s. Estey's leap into electric organs was certainly influenced by the relationship they shared with nearby Minshall Organ Inc. After the end of the second world war, the Estey brothers became president and vice-president, respectively The firm then employed 165 persons, and had diversified its output to silverware chests and phonograph cases along with organs (the latter including a new Minshall-Estey model). The organs were accompanied by production of ammunition and bomb boxes and pontoon bridges.
Minshall estey organ model 1322 portable#
A new model of organ the portable chaplain organ. Estey Organ Company continued production on a limited scale until 1941 having gained lucrative military contracts. In 1947 Minshall’s company merged with Estey to form ‘Minshall-Estey Organ Inc’ where they continued to produce electronic organs based on Minshall’s designs until 1954 when Minshall severed ties with Estey. Minshall’s original plant in Ontario Canada moved in 1946 to Brattleboro, Vermont USA due to the proximity of Estey Organ Co – a well known and established manufacturer of reed organs. Minshall’s design eventually lead to the establishment of a successful organ manufacturing company selling mainly to churches and funeral parlorrs as well as the home organ market. These electronic tube organs were an early post war design – targeting a new and affluent US middle class and competing with tone wheel, pipe and reed based organs.
The Minshall range of electronic organs were designed by the ex-radio repairman Burton Minshall (Born Dereham Township, Oxford, Ontario, Canada 9th aug 1907.
Miessner also contributed to the development of an early model of the Minshall organ, the Radareed organ, an instrument made by the television pioneer John Logie Baird (1927) in which reeds were placed inside organ pipes. His practical developments in electronics revolutionized the reproduction of music. He is probably more responsible for the creation and promotion of the electronic reproduction of music than any other person in the country. The next photo, below, shows the plate on the back of model 1322, which gives credit to the Miessner Inventions patents, founded by Benjamin Franklin Miessner, Millburn, New Jersey. Here is a photo of model 1322 in the convent chapel The photos below shows the contra bass label on model 1322 in the St. Note, in the Pittsburg advertisement on this page, the words “Contra Bass” that was apparently a new sound for the model 1322. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Emlenton, Pa. Westminster Presbyterian Church Saxonburg, Pa. Worthington Lutheran Church Worthington, Pa. Joseph's Catholic Church North Oakland, Pa. Spring Church Lutheran Church Apollo, Pa. First Methodist Church Connoquenessing, Pa. Harmony-Zelienopole Methodist Church Harmony, Pa. Crestview Presbyterian Church Callery, Pa. Christ's Lutheran Church Muerysville, Pa. Partial List of Churches Using This Organ St. at our showrooms exclusively! "An Achievement in Music" Harvey C. In churches, chapels, homes, auditoriums, the Minshall-Estey is the piano-size organ with the "big voice." Any pianist can play it! A new experience in music Exclusive 6-octave keyboard with "Contra Bass." Tone cabinet duplicates the action of the 16foot diapason pipe. and moderate cost the Minshall-Estey electronic organ has won nation-wide approval. 1943 The Minshall-Estey Organ Ideal for Churches, Chapels, Homes, Auditoriums Famous for its Cathedral Tones. THE NEWS-HERALD, FRANKLIN AND OIL CITY, PA.
Reprinted here is one ad’s description for easier reading.
Two newspaper ads for this model, recommended this model 1322 for use in churches and auditoriums.
Minshall estey organ model 1322 serial#
Below are photos persevered by the Reed Organ Society of the same organ model, though different serial numbers. This model was made in 1947, the organ being branded as a Minshall-Estey. These inventions contributed to the manufacture of organ model 1322 at the Estey Organ Company, in Battleboro, Vermont. It is fairly rare, and one of the first Estey organs to be modified with electronics developed by Miessner Inventions, New Jersey. Mary’s convent in Silver City, NM is identified as a Minshall-Estey Reed Organ, model number 1322. MINSHALL-ESTEY ORGAN MODEL 1322 – Manufacture year 1947
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