Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-05-12
THE BIG EsTEY PHoNoRIUM
Which Takes the Place OF the Orchestra
and Band at the Big Electrical Exhi-
billion In New York.

Nnicn IhHes the race OF tne OEchesATd
and Band at the Big Electrical EXhi-
billion In New York.
While it is a well known fact in our com
munity that the Estey Organ company
have recently sent one of their large in
struments to New York for exhibition in
connection with the great electrical eXhi-
bition now going on in Madison Square
Garden, it is not perhaps as well known
that this instrument is the largest of the
kind that this company has ever produced,
and thinking that our readers will be in
terested in little further details regarding
this instrument, we have taken the trouble
to ascertain more definitely about it.
1t is a two manual Phonorium, with
pedals. The case in which it is enclosed
is of special Gothic design, richly orna-
mented with Gothic carving, and furnished
with brilliant array of finely decorated
pipes. In the lower manual, or the Great
Organ as it is called, there are seven full
sets of reeds, and in the upper manual or
Swell Organ, there are six sets of reeds.
In the pedals there are also two full sets
of reeds.
This Phonorium is furnished with a
pneumatic action, thus rendering the
touch as delicate, elastic and quick of re-
Spouse as any pipe organ can be made.
The occasion for its building was a re-
quest preferred by the managers of the
electrical exhibition that in place of the
orchestra and band which have been
features of preceding exhibitions, the
Estey Organ company should furnish a
large Phonorium as the principal musical
attraction.
A year ago two of the smaller-sized
Phonoriums were used in connection with
special exhibits in the electrical exhibition,
and they attracted such favorable notice
that the above invitation was the result.
1t was entirely unsolicited, and as uneX-
pected as it was agreeable.
The instrument has been installed in the
balcony just over the main entrance, and
we venture to say that no one can enter
Madison Square Garden and leave the
building without seeing and hearing the
Phonorium. Over the instrument is a
splendid electrical sign: "Estey Organ
Company" which was furnished by the
management, and as the instrument and
its accompanying sign stand alone in the
balcony at that end of the building, of
course it is exceedingly conspicuous.
1t has been a cause of great qualification
and surprise, not only to the public but to
the manufacturers themselves that the
tones of this instrument can be heard in
the farthest part of this mammoth build
ing. Indeed, during the installation of
other exhibits, while the building was full
of the noise incident to the hammerng
and other mechanical work, this organ
could be heard distinctly.
Prof. Francois c. F. Cramer, an Eng
lish organist of repute, is giving daily re-
citals on the instrument, and in the even
ing Mr.. Bent, the eminent cornetist of
New York city, is in attendance, giving
two or three solos with the Phonorium ac-
compartment.
Altogether, it has seemed to us as We
viewed the exhibit, that it was one of the
most striking triumphs the Estey Organ
company has ever achieved, and we look
for a marked increase in the demand for
this class of instruments.