Organette Roller Organ

Autophone Company; Ithaca, NY

  • Year
  • 1878–1900 ??
  • Category
  • Musical instruments
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 272206

 Technical Specifications

  • Wave bands
  • - without
  • Details
  • Other Combination - see Notes
  • Power type and voltage
  • Solar- and/or muscle driven, also addl. power jack possible
  • Material
  • Wooden case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: Organette Roller Organ - Autophone Company; Ithaca, NY
  • Shape
  • Tablemodel, with any shape - general.
  • Notes
  • This Organette was a mechanical free-reed instrument first manufactured in the late 1870's by the Autophone Company of Ithaca NY,
     
     
    The Roller Organ "Organette" was produced by Henry B. Horton's Autophone Company of Ithaca, New York.
     
    Autophone had begun in business sometime before 1878, the year in which it apparently introduced its first product — the Autophone paper-strip organette.
     
     
  • Author
  • Model page created by Alan Larsen. See "Data change" for further contributors.

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