Name/Title
Musical instrumentEntry/Object ID
2015.013.001Description
Reed organ, given by the Reidy family, once in their Islesboro home. Full keyboard with 10 stops. Tone is produced by two bellows, one evacuated by a pair of foot pedals thus creating a vacuum in the second bellows which can then pull air through a reed when a key is depressed.
Each key has a brass reed tuned to the appropriate note; these reeds can be pulled individually for tuning. Reed organs usually have more than one set of reeds (ranks) with differing pitch and tonality.
