600 Pump Organ Manufacturers

At one time or another, generally between 1840 and about 1930, there were approximately 600 pump organ manufactures in the United States. It is interesting to point out that almost all of these factories were located in the north.

This is probably understandable as much of the south was still trying to recover from the ravages of four, tragic years of Civil War (1861 to 1865). Plus the fact, that the south didn’t have the abundance of hard wood that the north had. For the most part, just about all pump organs were built with either Oak wood, or Walnut.

In its day, the pump organ industry employed tens of thousands of workers. However, unlike like other musical instruments that have been around for a long time, the pump organ enjoyed only a brief period of popularity (less than a century) and then they were gone.