Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2004-10-30 - Burned in 1920s. -Database Manager
2024-12-11 - Theorgan was used first in Menlo Park and then moved to the larger laboratory in East Orange, where it burned in 1914. The Roosevelt organ list states the organ had 2 'stops' with 5 drawknobs visible in the two extant photos, very likely 6 knobs in total given the placement of the visible knobs. The compass was 58 notes and a tenor-c Open Diapason 8' is visible in the facade, with a Stopt Diapason bass for the bottom octave. There are not enough visible clues in the photo to determine the second rank, likely either a Stopt Diapason Treble or Dulciana. Surely one knob was an Octave Coupler (4'), and likely also a Tremolo. Pump-organ style pumping pedals now found on the Skinner "replica" at Greenfield Village are not visible in the two photos, and it is remotely possible the bellows were electrically operated, given the mutual Edison and Roosevelt interest in electricity. The 4-rank Skinner Organ Co. "reconstruction" for the Menlo laboratory recreated by Henry Ford at Greenfield Village, MI is a total pastiche and the shop file on the instrument gives no indication that any attempt was made to contact people then still living to ascertain more exacting details of the original organ. -Scot Huntington
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