I, too, had a pump organ (also called a parlor organ) which I tried
unsuccessfully to sell for two years.  I  finally found a musical instrument
museum who gladly accepted it.  They came and transported it themselves.
Barbara
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Subject: pump organ


> Help, fellow listers!
>
> Our museum has a pump organ - I know very, very little about organs in
> general, and not much about this one in particular.  What I do know is
that
> it was made in Chicago in the late 1800's/early 1900's and transported to
> Issaquah, WA in the 1970's.  The former museum director accepted it into
the
> collection because it was a nice antique, and it has nothing to do with
our
> mission, or the history of the town.  And it takes up a lot of space. We
> would like to deaccession and sell it, but I'm not sure how to go about
> this.  Does anyone have experience with getting rid of this kind of
> artifact?  The first challenge is finding a method of disposal; the second
> is transporting the organ.
>
> Erica S. Maniez
> Museum Director, Issaquah Historical Society
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