Peerless Arcadian Orchestrion—Engelhardt Style

Peerless Arcadian Orchestrion—Engelhardt Style.

(Photograph courtesy of Reblitz-Bowers Encyclopedia.)

Peerless Arcadian Orchestrion—Engelhardt Style. Introduced in the Autumn of 1912, and plays 20,000 Series rewind “O” rolls. Instrumentation included a full 88-note piano (played by 66 notes in the roll plus bass and treble octave-couplers), a set of wood pipes, thirty-two (32) in number, either violin or flute in early examples, or both violin and flute in subsequent examples, snare drum, bass drum, tympani effect, cymbal, triangle, and a set of castanets.

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