A pedal organ has been found!

We are pleased to announce that a period Shipman Pedal Organ made in Highpoint, NC has been found a purchased for the Birthplace. In I Put a Spell on You, The Autobiography of Nina Simone, an organ is mentioned on page 14. "At the time I was born we didn't have a piano in the house, we had a pedal organ. When our house was burned down [referring to a house the Waymon's later lived in and not the Birthplace], the pedal organ was the first thing rescued out of the fire." Carrol Waymon confirmed this account and described the location of the organ in the Birthplace near the front door -- in what he called the "music corner."