I bought a ~1929 Marie Antoinette Aeolian Pipe Organ about 4 weeks ago.
It is a 7 rank, 433 pipe organ with the console opus #1349.  The console
and the organ itself were not installed as the original pair from what I
have been told.

If anyone knows about this type of organ, I have a few questions.

On the valve chest I see the number 30011.  Was this the 11th Marie
Antoinette pipe organ built by Aeolian?  Is there any information about
when this valve chest was built?

From information passed down, I believe that the original console for
this organ did not have keys.  It had the roll player on the top of a
large box with the Aeolian rocker switches below to control the stops.
Is there any information that matches the specific console opus # to
my chest number 30011 when first installed?  Did Aeolian even assign
Opus numbers to the roll players without keyboards?  I just don't know.

I also have other questions about the 176-hole roll format and about
the Ztronics people who manufactured the boards that are currently
installed in my organ (MIDI specific).  I will leave these last
2 questions for later since they may be very extensive and long winded.

Pete Knobloch (Tempe AZ)