GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: THE ORGANETTE, FOR AN ORCHESTRA IN EVERY HOME!!!!!!!

Back by popular demand: Everything Croton continues its very popular series GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN....and so without further ah-doo... 

From 1882, AN AD FOR THE ORGANETTE--an orchestra in every home! The Organette was a mechanical free-reed instrument first manufactured in the late 1870s by several companies such John McTammany of Cambridge MA, the Autophone Company of Ithaca NY, and many other manufacturers worldwide. The organette (or orguinette) used rolls of perforated paper, perforated cardboard, perforated metal disks and wooden rollers (or "cobs") on which the music was recorded. Click on the photo. Read more here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organette

SEE THE LAST EDITION OF GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN here http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2016/10/gone-but-not-forgotten-matchbook.html