Greenfield Village: Edison Laboratory
20900 Oakwood Boulevard
Dearborn, MI
Images
2011-05-10 - Laboratory Interior and Organ (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)
2011-05-10 - Laboratory Interior and Organ (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)
2011-05-10 - Organ (Pipework and Keydesk) (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)
2011-05-10 - Organ (Pipework and Keydesk) (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)
2011-05-10 - Building Exterior (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)
2011-05-10 - Building Exterior (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)
2011-05-10 - Edison Laboratory Complex and Historic Presentation (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)
Consoles
Keydesk
- Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
- Console position: Keydesk Attached
- 1 manuals
- 4 stops
- 4 registers
- 1 divisions
- Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
- Stop action Type: Mechanical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Row Above Top Manual
- Manual compass: 56 notes
- Pedal Type: No Pedalboard
- Expression Type: No Enclosed Divisions
- Combination action: None
Notes
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1974 -Database Manager
2007-01-19 - Updated through information adapted from *E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List*, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: Replica of original Roosevelt, #16 in the Edison Laboratory, Menlo Park, New Jersey; tracker action; extant. -Database Manager
2011-05-11 - Henry Ford hired Ernest Skinner to build the instrument. Skinner used photographs of the original laboratory to design the organ as a replica of the Roosevelt instrument that had been in the lab. The organ is a self-contained instrument with all pipes exposed. It is located in the back of the laboratory on the second floor of the building. -Database Manager
2024-08-12 - Organ was restored by Jerroll Adams in 2017 and is played during special events in the village -John Deppe
Stoplist
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2016-07-08] Source: Stoplist from Ray Correll
MANUAL Diapason 8, Dulciana 8 (TC), Rohrflöte 8 (TC), Violina 4
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