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FS: Aeolian Player Pipe Organ in California
By Richard Zipf

For sale: Aeolian 1345, a 3/40 player pipe organ, installed (1916)
in the John Spreckels mansion in Coronado, California.  Current
location is my home in Carmichael, Calif. (a Sacramento suburb).

Within the chests I completely re-leathered all the mechanisms
(pouches, pneumatics, valve facings) and repaired felt damage to
the valves.  I also:
- re-leathered all the pouches in the coupler stack,
- repaired the considerable moisture damage and repainted the chests,
- repaired, cleaned, and re-shellacked the pipes,
- de-rusted and painted steel parts,
- rebuilt and repainted the supporting structure and ducts.

I.e., I not only restored the organ to functional condition, but I
attempted to do so in a way which would maximize its future life span.

Within the organ console is a roll player which can play the smaller
Aeolian pipe organ rolls (I have more than 100 such rolls).  Included
in the sale is a separate Duo-Art roll player, which is in good,
unrestored condition and which is capable of playing the larger Aeolian
pipe organ rolls.  I also installed a Devtronix MIDI interface to the
organ and have enjoyed playing the organ from a computer sequencer.

At age 70, I feel it is time to part company with the organ, rather
than leave this potentially difficult responsibility to my heirs.
I am asking $130,000 for this museum-quality instrument but am open
to negotiation.  Serious inquiries only.

Richard Zipf
Carmichael, California (a Sacramento suburb)
tel.: 1-916-487-9198
rfzipf@gmail.com.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply]


(Message sent Sat 2 May 2009, 19:03:47 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

Key Words in Subject:  Aeolian, California, FS, Organ, Pipe, Player

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