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Title	A.B. Chase Pump Organ
Subject	Arts and Entertainment Business and Labor Music Organs Musical instruments
Place	Norwalk (Ohio) Huron County (Ohio)
Description	This is one of the first pump organs made by the A.B. Chase Organ Factory in Norwalk, Ohio. It is made of walnut wood and stands 49.5" high x 23" deep x 45" long (125.73 x 58.42 x 114.3 cm). Captain Alvin B. Chase, a Civil War veteran, organized the A.B. Chase Piano Factory in 1875 with a capital stock of $50,000. The factory was located in the old Norwalk Barrel Company buildings on Newton Street. L.L. Doug was secretary-treasurer of the company and H.R. Moore was the general superintendent. The firm began production of reed organs in 1876. Chase died shortly afterwards and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery. After his death, Calvin Whitney, an original stockholder, became president of the firm and was associated with it until his death in 1909. In 1885, the company began producing pianos, first the square style, then upright, grand, and player models. By 1892, the company employed 225 men and sold 23 piano styles and 70 organ styles. The firm won the grand prize for the quality, scale, action, tone, materials, and pedal system of their products at the 1893 World's Fair. About 1900, A.B. Chase discontinued manufacturing organs to concentrate on pianos. A white A.B. Chase piano graced the parlor of the White House while President McKinley was in office. Pianos from Norwalk were sold worldwide and by 1904 the company stock had risen to $300,000. The pianos were then marketed under the name "New York - Norwalk" until about 1930, when that company went out of business.
Creator	A.B. Chase Company
Date of Original	1870s circa
Source	Historical object(s) or artifact(s) Organ X1X-32
Submitting Institution	Firelands Historical Society
Type	StillImage
Format	picture; objects

Title	Om793_1021469_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om793_1021469_001.tif
Image Height	1563
Image Width	1319
File Size	477.725 KB

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