"To pull out all the stops" means to use all the resources at one's disposal to achieve a goal. And you might want to start pulling out those stops to obtain this magnificent antique oak organ with its accompanying stool. In fact this idiom originally refers to the physical stop knobs of a pipe organ.
This elegant organ is just what you might need if you want to re-enact your own version of "Phantom of the Opera" or get a Handel on your Bach (both George Frideric Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach composed music for the organ). It is of vividly striped "tiger oak," a process of milling that produced oak patterned like a tiger's pelt. Although popular from the 1800s through the early 1900s, furniture manufacturers stopped using tiger oak because the milling process wasted a lot of valuable oak and was no longer economical.
The organ proudly displays two brass plaques of the Imperial Organ & Piano Company, Ltd., an English manufacturer established in 1902. It was known for its high quality instruments, which included upright and baby grand pianos and organs for both home and church use.
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