Farrand & Votey


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1 manual organ                                         

Stoplist:

Melodia
Dolce
Viola
Echo
Bass Coupler
Sub Bass
I Forte
2 Forte
Vox Humana
Treble Coupler
Celeste
Flute
Dulciana
Diapason

Company history:
Started in Detroit, MI, .as Detroit Organ Co. in 1881, as a worker-owned enterprise. It proved unsuccessful and was bought out by Detroit music dealer C.J. Whitney and organ builder Edwin S. Votey, a former Estey Employee, in 1883 and incorporated as the Whitney Organ Co. W.R. Farrand joined the same year as financial manager. Whitney retired in 1887, and the name changed to Farrand & Votey. Started building pipe organs in 1888 and in 1889 acquired the patents of Frank Roosevelt, successor to Hilborne Roosevelt. Acquired the Granville Wood Pipe Organ Co. in 1890. In 1897 the company split up, Farrand remaining with the reed organs as the Farrand Organ Co, and Votey taking the pipe organ and player piano business into the Aeolian Co where he became a vice-president. The Farrand Organ co. later brought out its own piano player, the Cecilian, and went bankrupt in 1915.


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