Midget Organ Has Full Range (Nov, 1937)
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….
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.