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Autophone
The Autophone was an early type of organette, invented in 1878 by Henry Bishop Horton. One of the first table-top organettes to be mass-produced, it played music using punched cards A punched card (also punch card or punched-card) is a piece of stiff paper that holds digital data represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions. Punched cards were once common in data processing applications or to d ... to activate 22 reeds. See also References External links *{{cite web, title=Autophone {{! "Autophone" Organette {{! American {{! The Met, url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/504965, website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum 1878 in music Organs (music) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organette
The Organette was a mechanical free-reed programmable (automatic) musical instrument first manufactured in the late 1870s by several companies such as John McTammany of Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Autophone Company of Ithaca, New York, the Automatic Organ Co of Boston, Massachusetts, E.P. Needham & Sons of New York City, J.M. Draper of Blackburn, England, Paul Ehrlich & Co. of Leipzig, Germany, and The Mechanical Orguinette Co. of New York, NY as well as 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 programmed. Musical scales ranged from 14 to 39 notes depending on the instrument's complexity. Air pressure or vacuum was produced by hand-, crank- or foot-operated mechanical bellows. The organette was compact and affordable with large selections of music available. Various patents credit Henry Bishop Horton (1819-1885; co-founder of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Bishop Horton
Henry Bishop Horton (September 1, 1819, in Winchester, Connecticut – December 3, 1885, in Ithaca, New York) was an American inventor, remembered chiefly for his inventions in automatic music players and clock-making. Around 1823, his family moved to Covert, New York, where he grew up. When Horton was 19 years old, he served for three years as a cabinet maker's apprentice under George Whiton (1801–1878). After this, he became involved in the manufacture of melopeans, instruments similar to melodeons. His taste for music showed itself at an early age and during his lifetime he invented various musical instruments, most celebrated being the organette The Organette was a mechanical free-reed programmable (automatic) musical instrument first manufactured in the late 1870s by several companies such as John McTammany of Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Autophone Company of Ithaca, New York, the Auto .... His first patents for the instrument were granted in 1877 and 1878, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organette
The Organette was a mechanical free-reed programmable (automatic) musical instrument first manufactured in the late 1870s by several companies such as John McTammany of Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Autophone Company of Ithaca, New York, the Automatic Organ Co of Boston, Massachusetts, E.P. Needham & Sons of New York City, J.M. Draper of Blackburn, England, Paul Ehrlich & Co. of Leipzig, Germany, and The Mechanical Orguinette Co. of New York, NY as well as 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 programmed. Musical scales ranged from 14 to 39 notes depending on the instrument's complexity. Air pressure or vacuum was produced by hand-, crank- or foot-operated mechanical bellows. The organette was compact and affordable with large selections of music available. Various patents credit Henry Bishop Horton (1819-1885; co-founder of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punched Card
A punched card (also punch card or punched-card) is a piece of stiff paper that holds digital data represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions. Punched cards were once common in data processing applications or to directly control automated machinery. Punched cards were widely used through much of the 20th century in the data processing industry, where specialized and increasingly complex unit record equipment, unit record machines, organized into semiautomatic data processing systems, used punched cards for data input, output, and storage. The IBM 12-row/80-column punched card format came to dominate the industry. Many early digital computers used punched cards as the primary medium for input of both computer programs and Data (computing), data. While punched cards are now obsolete as a storage medium, as of 2012, some voting machines still used punched cards to record votes. They also had a significant cultural impact. History The idea of contr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1878 In Music
This article is about music-related events in 1878. Events * April 9? – Franz Berwald's Symphony No. 4 receives its premiere performance, conducted by Ludvig Norman. * May 25 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera ''H.M.S. Pinafore'' debuts in London at the Opera Comique with a first run of 571 performances. * November 18 – Soprano Marie Selika Williams becomes the first African American artist to perform at the White House. * ''A Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' edited by George Grove begins publication in the U.K. Published popular music * "Aloha ʻOe" w.m. Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii * "Carry Me Back To Old Virginny" w.m. James A. Bland * "De Gospel Raft" by Frank Dumont * "Emmet's Lullaby" Joseph K. Emmet * From ''H.M.S. Pinafore'': (words by W. S. Gilbert, music by Arthur Sullivan) ** "I Am the Captain of the Pinafore" ** "I Am the Ruler of the Queen's Navee" ** "I'm Called Little Buttercup" ** "Kind Captain" ** " Never Mind the Why and Wherefore" ** "When I Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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