Midget Organ Has Full Range (Nov, 1937)
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Nov, 1937
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Nov, 1937
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Midget Organ Has Full Range
Weighing only 125 pounds, a diminutive electric organ has recently been completed by Louis Weir, of Boston, Mass. Tiny whirling wheels generate the fundamental notes, while the variations and harmonics of a full-size organ are produced by an intricate combination of switches and stops. An amplifier swells the volume of the instrument from a faint whisper to a resounding crescendo.
aww, he’s so proud of his cute li’l organ… he can’t stop touching it!
looks like something dr. suess came up with after hitting the cough syrup a little too hard….
Comment by Jeffery Wright — October 18, 2007 @ 12:08 pm
Wasn’t a tone wheel organ (IE using “tiny whirling wheels”) already invented By Laurens Hammond in 1934? Of course, his was not quite this small, but it used the same technology.
Comment by Steven W — October 23, 2007 @ 5:49 pm