Bell Organ

Date1892

DimensionsOverall: 169.3 × 151.8 × 59 cm (1.69 × 1.52 × 0.59 m)

Credit LineGift of Ron Schiedel, London, Ontario, 1998

Object number1998.013.001

Label TextThis is a Bell organ. Brothers Robert and William Bell established to company that bore their name in Guelph, Ontario, in 1864. By about 1895, the company became “W. Bell & Company.” Bell built a full line of pianos and reed organs until the turn-of-the-century. By the first part of the 20th Century, the firm had all but discontinued organ manufacturing and added player pianos to their product line. Bell was known for building very good quality pianos and organs, and they enjoyed a very good reputation in the industry. In about 1928, John S. Dowling of Brantford, Ontario, bought the company. In 1934, the assets of the company were sold to the Lassage Piano Company of Quebec, and they continued to build instruments under the Bell name until about the Second World War.

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