![]() In 1975, the organ was brought back to Mooretown and has been at the museum ever since. In February of 1964, the organ was placed on loan to the Oil Springs Museum. ![]() It was then used for the next 50 years in Mooretown, but by the 1950s the organ became too difficult to pump. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Mooretown for $100, I can only assume that Ridgetown took a huge loss on the original purchase price. Around 1899, the organ was sold to the St. ![]() This organ was originally purchased in 1881 by the Presbyterian church in Ridgetown, Ontario, who used it for 18 years. Unfortunately, it barely could make a sound other than a weak moan with a hissing of air coming from the upper action. ![]() There are a number of reed instruments located there of various types - but this one stood out among them all. Later that summer, my wife and I took a day trip to visit the museum, to see this organ and to register it and the others with the ROS database. Immediately I had a number of nick names for it, such as the "Grand Daddy Dominion", or GDD for short. This was not your average reed organ, it was the most massive and decorated Canadian made organ I have seen. It all started in the summer of 2014, when a picture of a reed organ was shared with me that was at the Moore Museum, in Mooretown Ontario.
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