3-077-639 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Advertisement for the Wonderful Orchestral Organette, 1890. '...we have succeeded in producing the very ACME OF MUSICAL INVENTION...The Illustration gives you but a faint idea of general make and finish; but every Orchestral Organette is supplied with 28 FULL-SIZED AMERICAN ORGAN REEDS...The reeds are placed in a novel manner (patented) over a double suction bellows, and are controlled by THREE STOPS, as follows - viz. Flute, Expression, and Vox Humana. The music is produced by perforated sheets, which pass around the Organette in endless bands, enabling a tune to be played over and over again without stopping, furnishing the GRANDEST ORCHESTRAL EFFECTS, either in sacred, secular, dance, or vocal music, affording a rich, sonorous, and powerful accompaniment to the voice, requiring absolutely no skill in the performer, and THE RANGE OF MUSIC AND TONE IS PRACTICALLY UNLIMITED...For HOME ENTERTAINMENTS THEY ARE UNSURPASSED...there is not a piece of music which cannot be played with all the Varying effects of an orchestra...In many homes will be found a Grand Piano or Organ, with not an inmate of the household, even the most expert player, who can interest company on either so well as a child of three years old can on the ORCHESTRAL ORGANETTE'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.