Residence 19 rank pipe organ for sale...

[jt1stcav]

From the Musical Instruments Forum, thread:

I bet you guys don't have one of these in your house!

My brother chops2 posted a thread concerning our dad's 19 rank residence pipe organ he and my brother built back in '83...see the thread:

http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=69450&page=1&pp=15

Just as my brother has mentioned, it is for sale. Our family really does hate to part with it, but the space is needed for our recently retired father's new radio repair business. Unfortunantly, there's just no room for all his radios/equipment/parts and a pipe organ too.

Maybe a forum member here may know of an individual or a local church who is in need of a good quality, fully functional 19 rank pipe organ, complete with a 2 manual and pedal oak and mahogany console, electrical relay, blower and reservoirs, rigid windline, and complete electropneumatic chestwork and all pipework. If interested, our dad can supply you and/or the potential buyer with the complete stoplist, photographs, and a CD-R recording. You can contact our dad (Gary W. Tidwell) at gwtidwell@comcast.net or at 860-875-2124 and leave a message. If interested parties then would like to see the instrument, they can contact me (Jim Tidwell) at jt1stcav@tampabay.rr.com or at 863-644-9041 and leave a message. Any final negotiations and professional removal information is to be handled through our dad.

Thanks...

[Bigerik]

Well, I asked the wife, but she said no... :(

I must say tho, that it is the single coolest thing I have ever seen here. I always dreamed of having one of my own. Wonder what the people in the apt building I live in would think about it... :)

[jt1stcav]

Thanks for the compliment, Bigerik. It is very cool having a full-blown pipe organ in your very own home (back during the turn of the 20th Century only the very wealthy had pipe organs installed inside their 50-room mansions...and we're definately NOT rich)! So you've dreamt of owning one...do you play?

I wish it had more exposure, though...only a handful of local organists have played it; even so, word never really spread about it, and then our dad took on a job for an organ servicing firm up in CT and the poor organ's been used very little ever since (we're not organists ourselves so we can't play it nearly as well).

And now with our dad retiring and our folks moving back down to FL, there's just no room for his new radio restoration business and the organ, so we're hoping anyone here who knows of someone who'd like an organ for their own residence or for a church who'd like a small, inexpensive organ, will contact our dad that they're at least interested. We hate to sell what took years to build, but if we can't keep it, at least we want it to go to a good home where it will be used and appreciated!