Jacob Estey was born in Hinsdale, New Hampshire and ran away from an orphanage to Worcester where he learned the plumbing trade. He arrived in Brattleboro in 1835 at age 21 to work in a plumbing shop which he soon bought and thereby began his long career as a successful businessman. Hinsdale is a town located in Cheshire County, New Hampshire. ... Brattleboro, Vermont Brattleboro is a town located in Windham County, Vermont. ...

By the 1840's some of the earliest melodeon makers in New England had established themselves in Brattleboro and Jacob Estey saw the manufacturing and sale of these instruments, later known as reed organs, as a new business opportunity. In 1855 Jacob Estey organized the first manufacturing company to bear his name, Estey & Green, which was followed by Estey & Company; J. Estey & Company; Estey Organ Company; and finally Estey Organ Corporation until the company went out of business in 1960. The terms melodeon and melodion can refer to any of several related musical instruments of the free reed aerophone family: A type of 19th century reed organ with a foot-operated vacuum bellows, and a piano keyboard. ... While the states marked in red show the core of New England, the regions cultural influence may cover a greater or lesser area than shown. ...

There were Estey pianos, too, made in New York City New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the most populous city in the United States, and the most densely populated major city in North America. ...

During these more than one hundred years Estey became the largest and best known manufacturer of reed organs in the world, building more than 506,000 instruments, all of which carried the inscription of "Brattleboro, Vt. USA". A reed organ is an organ that generates its sounds using free metal reeds, similar to an accordion. ...

In 1902 Estey Organ Company embarked on the manufacture of pipe organs and built more than 3200 pipe organs all across the country before 1960. Following World War II, Estey undertook the development and manufacture of electronic organs and thereby became the only organ company to have manufactured all three types of organs, reed, pipe, and electronic. This article or section should be merged with Organ (music) The Casavant pipe organ at Notre-Dame de Montréal Basilica, Montreal. ... The classic Hammond electronic organ, invented in the 1930s and popular for decades thereafter. ...

The Estey family had a long tradition of company leadership and community involvement, including residential development such as Esteyville; banking; town government; schools; fire protection; military units; churches; and Vermont state politics and government. State nickname: The Green Mountain State Other U.S. States Capital Montpelier Largest city Burlington Governor Jim Douglas (R) Senators Patrick Leahy (D) Jim Jeffords (I) Official language(s) None Area 24,923 km² (43th)  - Land 23,974 km²  - Water 949 km² (3. ...

The Estey Organ Museum is building a museum to honor the contributions of Jacone Estey and his company.