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Orchestrion

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Orchestrion 

(1) A portable organ designed by the German musician Abt G. J. Vogler. Invented in 1789.

(2) A combination piano-organ invented by T. A. Kunz in 1791 in Prague.

(3) A combination instrument consisting of a piano with pipes (flutes, clarinet, and bassoon). It is equipped with a pedal board. The instrument was built by A. Hunn and Scharrer in Berlin in 1812. Orchestrions have almost completely gone out of use.



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And Pat Metheny brings his Orchestrion Tour to Eugene on May 2, with tickets ranging from $35 to $65.
A former church provides the vast amount of space needed to display such an extensive collection of musical clocks and musical boxes, reed and string instruments, orchestrions (automatic orchestras) and barrel organs.
The story of Faust and the polarity of good and evil that it involves is expressed by the organ in classical stylisation on the one hand and the trivial orchestrion sound on the other.
 
 
 
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