Introduction of Circa 1877 Mason and Hamlin Portable Reed Organ with a Hymn

Restoration website at: http://www.rodneyjantzi.com/mh/index.htm

This little organ was brought back to life from being very close to being what I call an 'Organ Donor'.

It still requires work, this is the first time it was played since assembled back together. The work required is to revisit (again) the right exhauster (it was my first attempt at rebuilding leather gussets, it is noisy), a small leak in the rear mute and the odd unknown vibration. However, it plays easily and has extreme dynamic range.

The organ has two ranks of reeds, with the second rank activated by the knee lever. The swell is controlled by the bellows, using M&H's automatic bellows swell technology.

I am playing a hymn called "The Lord is My Shepherd", all five verses with different voices. The tune is called "Crimond" from the Scottish Psalter (1650), and the words were a transcription of Psalm 23 by Jesse Seymour Irvine (1836-1887).