I am very new to this list but need some help please

My newly built church has been offered a donation of a very
large Estey organ of unknown vintage. Apparently it has
lived indoors all these years, and is in playing condition now but I
have been able to get very little specific information on it. We
would have to transport it over 800 miles and put it into our choir
loft with a crane,and before that happens I have been given a chance
to say yes or no, and I need to make an intelligent decision.

90% of the reading about Estey which I have been doing in the WWW
makes me think we should say no. As far as I know, there is only one
repairman in this city who is capable of working on this organ; I
have spoken to him, and he is very unenthusiastic, to put it mildly.

here is the sum total of facts I have: large "electric" Estey organ,
would take five men to move it; two manuals, fifteen pulls, original
price $35,000 (whenever that was). I asked for a model name and was
told that on the back it says "de armond" but I think this was
garbled in relaying the message and should actually be D. Aldmond -
that's a speaker isn;t it, so this is not a pipe organ - is it?

Could someone who has knowledge of the Estey organs please say a few
words on these
instruments? **Whatever** you can offer would be gratefully
appreciated. I have a bad feeling about this whole proposition, but
as there is a lot of pressure to accept this donation, time is
running out.

Thanks very much!!!!
Martha