Object Record
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Collection |
Waterloo Region Museum |
Object ID |
1996.181.001 |
Object Name |
Organ, Parlor |
Description |
Cabinet organ (parlour organ) made by the Berlin Piano and Organ Company in 1898. Mahogany case, walnut backboard. Hinged back. Front music rest has an etched design (centre) and wooden appliques to either side (floral motifs). Carpeted pedals. Backboard (pediment) with small bevelled mirror. Backboard has a central arch over the mirror, with scrolls, arches, spindles and other ornamental figures. Two side-arms extend from the ends of the backboard. (Pieces are numbered 2, 3 and 4). Two lamp brackets which affix to either end of the keyboard (5 and 6). Backboard, side-arms and lamp brackets were all detached at time of cataloguing. According to the donor, one of the works inside the organ bears the name of Paul Lewburger. |
Date |
1898 |
Dimensions |
H-13.11 W-50.354 D-1.575 inches |
History |
The Berlin Piano and Organ Company was founded in 1890 by a consortium of local businessmen, including J.M. Staebler, Frederick Snyder, E.P. Clement, Jacob Kaufman, F.G. Gardiner, and John Fennell. The factory was located on King Street West, at the corner of Breithaupt Street and beside the Berlin Rubber Company, currently the Breithaupt Block. Around 1904, the company was purchased by W.H. Snyder and, in 1906, it was bought out by U.S. piano maker, Foster-Armstrong. Pianos continued to be manufactured at the factory until 1924 when the remaining assets were purchased by Sherlock-Manning, a leading Canadian piano manufacturer, and moved to their factory in Clinton, Ontario. |
Search Terms |
Berlin Piano and Organ Company Limited |
People |
Lewburger, Paul Bolton, Benjamin |