Orchestral organette

Orchestral organette *music box made by the British Organette and Music Manufacturing Co. of Blackburn, England, with 2 rows of free reeds, 2 hand-cranked bellows, and strips of perforated paper fed by the crank that actuated the bellows. The reeds worked on suction wind. All this was neatly contained in a box 37 cm. (14 1/2 in.) long, 34 cm. (13 1/2 in.) wide, and 15 cm. (6 in.) high. During the late 19th c. it was most pop. in England (132). Mahillon, Victor. Catalogue descriptif et…