The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-11-22
CARPENTER CO.'S
NEW AUTO-ORGAN
Sample Instruments Are Now Being
Sent Out by Local Concern-WiH
Be Sold at One Third the
Price of Player Piano.

A self f.playing organ which has al
ready attracted considerable attention
in the music trade and is likely to
meet with an extensive sale as soon as
its good qualities have been demon
strated to the music-loving public is
now being put on the market by the
Carpenter company of this town. The
concern shipped its first sample last
Friday and is now filing sample or
ders that have accumulated during the
past six months, but the company does
not expect to be in a position to fur
nish the organ in quantities before
the first of the year. This latest con-
tribution to the ranks of self-playing
instruments is the result of much
study on the part of the Carpenter
company and is intended to meet the
popular demand for an instrument
that gives satisfactory results and is
at the same time reasonable in price.
In fact the organ will retail at
price one-third that of player piano
and yet plays the same music.
The name of this new instrument
is the Carpenter AutO-Organ (trade
mark registered) and it will be fur
nished in an attractive piano style
case finished in dark golden oak, dull
rubbed 1t can be played by hand the
same as any organ and a slide covers
the music roll opening when not IN
use. The pneumatic action is entirely
independent and the instrument is as
satisfactory as any when played man
uallv. 1t has the same stops as
regular organ with the addition Of two
extra stops called the Auto-Organ and
Re-roll. The organ contains two and
half sets of reeds and divided coup
lers.
Its method of operation is simple.
When the slide in front of the tracker
board is pushed back the keys are
locked so that they do not move
while the pneumatic action is in prog
ress. After opening the slide the OPP
orator pulls the AutOOrgan stop and
then inserts the music roll, any stand
ard 65.note roll being available. AS
the pedals are pumped the roll IS
wound over the tracker board and the
music begins. Directly in front of the
keyboard is a tempo indicator, the
figures on its scale corresponding wlth
those on the music rolls. By means OF
this lever the operator can retard or
accelerate the time, either according
to the expression marks on the roll or
to his own desires. Crescendo ana
diminuendo effects are gained by the
use of knee swells. When the piece
is finished the operator pulls out the
re-roll stop and as he continues TO
pedal the roll is rewound. The or
gan is equipped with movable track
er board to accommodate any change
in the paper either from shrinking or
swelling,
The Auto Organ is not an absolutely
mechanical instrument, although 1t
can be played by person who has no
knowledge of how to play regular
organ. With a talking machine, Tor
instance, the rendition is always ex-
actlv the same but with the Auto Or
gan the music may be played accord
ing to the ideas of the operator who
as he becomes acquainted with the IN
strument will learn where to retard,
where to accelerate and what reeds to
use to gain the best results. The dit-
ferent music rolls, too, require study
and it is this very feature which viii
prevent the owner of an Auto-Organ
from losing interest in it,
Considering that the Carpenter self
player will be put on the market at
what may be called a popular price,
that any standard music roll can be.
used in it and that the results gained
are highly satisfactory, it is not too
much to expect that its manufacture
will form substantial addition to
the industrial activity of Brattleboro'