The organ was crated and shipped to Connecticut in a dedicated 20´ container and was brought into Bill and Ann Edgerton’s new home shortly after arrival. All the delivery arrangements were handled by AC Pilmer Automatic Music Ltd. After some weeks of acclimatisation, the organ was checked over and tuned by Russell Wattam and Andrew Pilmer before final assembly just a few days prior to this year’s MBSI annual convention at Morristown, NJ. Bill and Ann hosted a house visit on one of the member’s collection bus tours when, spread over two days, around 300 people saw and heard the new acquisition which was widely praised. 

After commercial use the organ was sold in 1970 to Mr Hart of The St. Albans Organ Museum, England, by the well-known Belgian organ dealers Oscar and Leonard Grymonprez; the year after it became part of the collection of Frank Bond, a relation of Mr Hart’s, where it kept company with a number of other Decap and Mortier organs. On Mr. Bond’s passing some years later, the collection was dispersed by auction in 1983 and Marie Jeanne was bought by another English enthusiast, Flan Spiller. Later the organ was sold to the Netherlands where it had a number of different owners before eventually being brought back to England. Whilst in the Netherlands the organ even spent some time in a small café where it provided music for the entertainment of the patrons. Before shipping to the United States a considerable amount of work was carried out by A C Pilmer Automatic Music Ltd. including re-leathering of the action.