2005-02-18 - Found in a basement storeroom at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota in 1985. Subsequently acquired and restored by Roland Rutz, Faribault, Minnesota. Loaned to Conant Library which in 1991 was seeking to raise $15,000 to purchase the instrument. -Database Manager
2007-09-24 - On-line information from Roland R. Rutz: -- "I restored this instrument. It was purchased and placed in the Conant Public Library/Museum through the efforts of Mrs. Edith Atkins, Director." -Database Manager
2025-04-29 - When discovered in 1984, the organ was missing all its metal pipes but was otherwise intact. It is the only extant Pratt organ with a nameplate (brass). The organ has an identical twin in the Storrowton Village Chapel (W. Springfield, Mass.). This was the Pratt family chamber organ and given to the Storrowton museum by Pratt's grand-daughter in 1933. -Scot Huntington
Organ missing all metal pipes when found in 1984, otherwise totally intact. Source: Examination of extant organ April 2025
Manual (A single-manual, chamber-type parlor organ.) Diapason Treble (Label missing. Metal chimney flute from middle-c, new pipes 1984, originals missing.), Diapason Bass (Stopt wood GG-b, mostly original plus new 1984 replacements), Dulciana (From middle-c, new open-metal pipes 1984 to replace missing originals.), Principal (Stopt wood basses GG-E (10 pipes), partly original and partly 1984. Open-metal pipes from F, new 1984 to replace missing originals.)
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