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Tone generator cabinet showing the vacuum tubes and speakers of the Minshall Organ (image copyright Swartko) The Minshall company finally came to an end in 1955 Burton Minshall became ill, sold all of his shares in the company and eventually died in 1957. In 1947 Minshall’s company merged with Estey to form ‘Minshall-Estey Organ Inc’ where they continued to produce electronic organs based ion Minshall’s designs until 1954 when Minshall severed ties with Estey. Minshall’s original plant in Ontario Canada moved in 1946 to Brattleboro, Vermont USA due to the proximity of Estey Organ Co – a well known and established manufacturer of reed organs. This first amateur design eventually lead to the establishment of a successful organ manufacturing company selling mainly to churches and funeral parlours as well as the home organ market. Minshall’s design was originally intended as a home build project. Numerous electronic organs were produced during the 1950s in what became a fiercely competitive market, eventually dominated by companies such as Hammond, Conn and Gulbranson (who in turn were forced out by heavy competition from Japanese integrated circuit designs in the 1960s).

These electronic tube organs were an early post war design – targeting a new and affluent US middle class and competing with tone wheel, pipe and reed based organs. The Minshall range of electronic Organs were designed by the ex-radio repairman Burton Minshall (Born Dereham Township, Oxford, Ontario, Canada 9th aug 1907 .

1931: Radio Organ of a Trillion Tones, Polytone Organ & Singing Keyboard.'Dr Kent's Electronic Music Box', Dr Earle Kent, USA, 1951.'MUSIC N', Max Vernon Mathews, USA, 1957.'Photo-Electric Marimba' or 'Marimbalite'.'Clavecin Électrique' or 'Clavessin Électrique'.Freddie Williams & Tom Kilburn, United Kingdom, 1951.

