Reuben Midmer founded his own organ-building company in Brooklyn, New York in 1860.
After Reuben's death, Reed purchased the business from his father's estate; and in 1906, he moved the shop to Merrick.
[2] Among the many instruments built, the company made 42 theatre organs during the age of silent films.
[3] It also built what is currently the world's largest pipe organ: the Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ in the Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey; inaugurated in 1932, it has over 33,000 pipes controlled from a seven-manual console.
It was built on or about the same time as the organ in Atlantic City.