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sold me the stuff for the player-piano, and I told him what I really wanted was a pipe-organ.
“He knew about this one at a church in Batavia and brokered it for me. We took it apart and brought it back here in a U-Haul and stored it in Flint Hill,” says Landrum.
“I paid roughly two times what the congregation paid for it nearly 60 years ago,’ says Landrum, who also acquired church records showing the bill of sale at $1,750 from M.P. Moller Inc., of Hagerstown, Md. “I paid $3,500, but in putting it back together it’s probably worth about $20,000,” says. “But, of course, you don’t find a lot of people into pipe-organs.”
Moller is a prominent name in the musical instrument business and has been crafting pipe-organs since 1875. Landnim’s was built in 1934 for the Swedish M.E. church in Batavia.
“It’s by no means the biggest pipe-organ or the biggest pipe-organ in a house,” Landrum says, “But it’s my understanding that this is the only pipe-organ in the county.” There are electric organs in churches here, but no other pipe-or
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