ORGAN, REED

Description: .1 OAK AND IVORY KEYS. 2 PIECES. PARLOR STYLE COMPLETE WITH A BENCH. PEDAL OPERATED. SINGLE KEYBOARD WIT11 STOPS. SCROLL CUT PANEL ACROSS THE TOP WITH INSERT MIRROR. ORGAN CONSISTS OF 2 PIECES, ORGAN AND DETACHABLE BACK. PEDALS COVERED WITH TACKED ON LINOLEUM. 2 STOP LABELS MISSING. PAINTED ABOVE THE KEYBOARD "EATON ORGAN" "QUEEN MODEL". BACK OF CASE SLIGHTLY SPLINTERED. 5 OCTAVES IN "F SCALE, 3 SETS OF REEDS, WITH GRAND ORGAN AND KNEE SWELL. OPERATIONAL. EATON ORGAN ON LEFT; "QUEEN MODEL" ON RIGHT. 3 WOOD CAPS HAVE COME APART FROM SCROLL CUT PANEL AT TOP. BEVELED MIRROR AT CENTRE OF PANEL. BRASS SCREWS. KEYLOCK ON KEYBOARD LID. LID ALSO HAS SPINDLED WOOD HANDLE. WHITE PAINT SPLATTERED ON WOOD SURFACE. .2 ORGAN STOOL. 51.7 CM HT. X 31.2 CM WTH. X 32.9 CM LTH X 36.0 CM DIAM. 2 PIECES. SEAT LOOSE ALONG SEAM. BASE PLATE OF SEAT IS SPLIT. EMBOSSED ON SEAT BASE PLATE "...ORGAN CO. LTD. GODERICH ONT." SEAT PRICES HELD TOGETHER WITH BALING WIRE. STOOL IS 4 LEGGED, HAS METAL EAGLE CLAW FEET HOLDING GLASS BALLS. BASE PLATE HAS BEEN FRACTURED; PIECE MISSING. CENTRE POST AFFIXED TO EACH LEG BY HORIZONTAL SPINDLE. ONE ADJUSTMENT SCREW IN CENTRE POST. HEIGHT OF STOOL IS ADJUSTABLE. SEAT REMOVABLE. FINISH IS WORN ON SEAT.

History: NO ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY DONOR. *UPDATE* IN 2015 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT JANE EDMUNDSON CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. THE FOLLOWING BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE DONOR, AGNES ANDERSON WENDELBOE, WAS FOUND IN HER LETHBRIDGE HERALD OBITUARY AND THE BOOK 'COYOTE FLATS: HISTORICAL REVIEW, 1905 - 1965' (PUBLISHED IN 1967 BY THE COYOTE FLATS HISTORICAL SOCIETY).. AGNES ANDERSON WAS BORN IN NORWAY IN 1901, AND MOVED TO THE PICTURE BUTTE AREA WITH HER FAMILY IN 1910. SHE MARRIED ROSS WENDELBOE IN 1920 AND THEY FARMED IN THE BARRHILL DISTRICT. WHEN ROSS DIED IN 1966, AGNES MOVED TO LETHBRIDGE, WHERE HER SON MAURICE LIVED. SHE PASSED AWAY IN 1991. ON DECEMBER 7, 2015 EDMUNDSON SPOKE TO AGNES WENDELBOE'S SON, MAURICE, OVER THE TELEPHONE. HE CONFIRMED THAT AGNES HAD INITIALLY PLAYED THE ORGAN AS A CHILD IN THE 1910S, AND INHERITED IT WHEN HER MOTHER PASSED AWAY IN 1965. SHE BROUGHT THE ORGAN WITH HER WHEN SHE MOVED TO LETHBRIDGE IN 1967, BUT DONATED IT TO THE MUSEUM SHORTLY AFTER, AS SHE WAS LIVING IN A SMALL RENTED APARTMENT. MAURICE WENDELBOE REMEMBERS HIS MOTHER PLAYING THE ORGAN "ONLY A FEW TIMES". SEE PERMANENT FILE FOR HARDCOPY OF AGNES WENDELBOE'S OBITUARY AND PERTINENT PAGES FROM THE 'COYOTE FLATS' BOOK.