-Expert
Facts[]
- Fact 1: Manufactured by Autophone Company in Ithaca, NY.
- Fact 2: It sold for $7.60, which is about $192 in today's dollars.
- Fact 3: Roller organs were common place until the advent of the radio. the first radio broadcast was a Christmas concert in 1906. It was broadcast from Massachusetts and picked up by ships sailing along the Atlantic.
- Fact 4: A roller organ or barrel organ is a mechanical musical instrument consisting of bellows and one or more ranks of pipes housed in a case, usually of wood, and often highly decorated.
- Fact 5: The roller organ was the traditional instrument organ grinders. With few exceptions, organ grinders used one of the smaller, more portable versions of the roller organ, containing perhaps one rank of pipes and only 7 to 9 9 tunes.