119 Year Old ~ Lye Opus 107 Pipe Organ

The last Lye organ was built in 1954 in Toronto, Ontario. In addition to the 119 year old working Lye organ in Smithville, Ontario, there are sixty scattered among churches in Toronto and others remain in B.C., Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and the Yukon. The Royal Canadian College of Organists has designated the Smithville organ as "one of the only working pump organs of that era."
Born in Crewkeme, Somerset, England, Edward Lye, a cabinet maker, arrived in Canada in 1857. He began his organ building business in 1864 at 18 and 20 St. Alban's Street, Toronto.
Photo: by Lorna