Chordaulion

Chordaulion [Gk. chorde, string + aulos, pipe], mechanical organ invented by Johann Gottlieb Kaufmann of Dresden and his son Friedrich in 1815, with open and stopped pipes that could imitate string and wind instrs., controlled by pinned cylinders. The sound could be modified dynamically without any change of pitch simply by increasing or decreasing the wind pressure. In 1830 one was shipped to Havana, Cuba, and, according to a contemporary description, it stood about 10 ft. high, contained 10…