Organino

Organino (It.), 1. small pipe organ; 2. small barrel organ, a bird organ; 3. name applied in Lombardy to panpipes; 4. a precursor of the harmonium, built by Alexandre-François Debain of Paris between 1834 and 1840, with 2 tones on each key pitched an oct. apart (89 Hipkins, 176). Sort by:DefaultTitleDateAuthorAscendingDescending Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th edition. London, 1954. Sachs, Curt. Reallexikon der Musikinstrumente. Berlin, 1913.