Dear Dennis:
Paul Toelken has the world's largest collection of reeds. His father
worked for Estey. Somehow Paul got ahold of their remaining stock when
they closed up operations years ago.
His address is: P.O. Box 25017 Prescott Valley, AZ 86312
Phone is (520) 772-8914
He is listed in the PTG directory if you lose this.
Jim Coleman, Sr.
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Dennis Johnson wrote:
>
> Sorry, but I want to know if someone can direct me regarding replacement
> and tuning of a few reeds to my big old organ. It is an 1895 double
> manual Story & Clark with pedal board and has four ranks of reeds. I have
> already removed and cleaned all of these reeds, but 2 or 3 are broken
> (not bad, actually) and one stop in particular is out of tune with the
> rest of the organ. Cleaning did help considerably and 17 of
> the remaining stops sound quite good together. Does someone here know
> what it would take to get other couple of stops in tune, and to replace
> those few bad reeds? It seems that one should be able to replace reeds,
> but they are fastened with what looks like rivets.
>
> I think that someone intentionally bent reeds in the past, and this must
> have been a tuning technique, but specifically, how?
>
>
> Thanks for any help,
> you may want to respond privately.
>
>
> Dennis Johnson
>
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