At least that's what I think it is.

I found this in the attic of a house I recently acquired. I have no idea what it is, how it works, name or even if it's all there but any information I can get would be helpful and maybe some links to what it's worth?









pictures where taken with my cell phone in the dark. If you need a closer pic of something let me know, and I can get it tomorrow.

 

Kinda of looks like a part of an old organ or piano?

 

I was thinkin organ too, dang that thing looks complicated

 

That's the insides of a reed organ

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I have my great grand mother's

Look around the body is probably still somewhere. They were usually made from Walnut

 

Here's some music from reed organs. They have a unique sound.
I restored mine back in the 80's when they were top dollar. Now, a restored organ may bring a few hundred dollars. You need to try and find a manufacture of your organ. Somewhere on the reed board should be a plate.
They were vacuum, the foot pedals in your second picture draw the bellows, to make the reeds vibrate as you push the keys.
I would love for you to find the rest of it and restore it to play!
Here's the music, so you can get an idea of what you have

 

Reminds me of the guts of a player piano. We have one from 1919. The organ thing sounds possible too.

 

Dusty, I know that the rest is not around this property unfortunately.

 

The gears and shafts would make me think internals to a player piano. Are those wires going out to what would be solenoids on a keyboard? If they're tubes, then it might be some sort of organ, as the tubes would carry air.

P.S. Missed it. Those are mechanically driven bellows to the left in picture #5. You can see the crank shaft connected to them. So it'd be a motor powered pump organ.

We have a foot powered pump organ in our church. I have no idea how old it is but it still works.

 

No it's foot powered. Look at pic 2 you see the foot pedals.

Yes they are tubes.


I really wish the rest of it was around. That would be cool to restore it.

Although have found a lot of interesting stuff in this house. Nothing worth a bunch but just lots of stuff.

 

just to give you an idea of how much "stuff" I have found. Here is the pile I have pulled out to keep and have a garage sale so far (still more loads to haul)



And I have filled a roll-off dumpster twice of garbage

 

Keep those organ parts!

I had to rebuild the key plungers on mine. They are an odd size dowel.
The mice were kind enough to eat mine last century, so I had to turn new ones.

There are parts available online. If you can find the manufacture, We can come up with a case, even If we have to make it from scratch.
My great gramma's organ has moved with me everywhere I went for the last 40 years. I can't play it, but it sure is a fun thing to own, and a beautiful piece of furniture!

 

Is that lil pedal tractor old or is it made of plastic?

 

it's plastic

 

Darn. You find anything else good in there? Looks like a really old house from the pic of your garage or whatever room that is?

 

that's actually just my storage building.

BUT the house was built in 1887 or so I was told.

Here is the house



and some of the woodwork inside