Started building pipe organs in 1888 and in 1889 acquired the patents of Frank Roosevelt, successor to Hilborne Roosevelt. Whitney retired in 1887 and the name changed to Farrand & Votey. Farrand joined the same year as financial manager. Votey, a former Estey employee, in 1883 and incorporated as the Whitney Organ Co. Whitney and organ builder Edwin S. In 1881, a worker-owned enterprise which proved unsuccessful and was bought out by Detroit music dealer C.J.
Later brought out its own piano player, the Cecilian, and went bankrupt in 1915. In 1897 the company split up, Farrand remaining with the reed organs as the Farrand Organ Co., and Votey taking the pipe organ and player piano business into the Aeolian Company where he became a Vice-president. Votey did pioneering work on piano players, developing the famous Pianola.
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