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Mechanical Music Aboard Ships
By Jim Crank

Commercial vessels were not the only ships where automatic musical
instruments were to be found.  Several of the grand steam yachts were
also equipped with player pipe organs.

 - DELPHINE, the Dodge yacht, had a 2/16 Aeolian with the Duo-Art player.

 - MAY, the yacht for Capt. De Lamar, had a 2/12 Aeolian.

 - HILDEGARD, the Whitlock steam yacht, had an Aeolian in 1898, their
first one aboard a ship.

 - NIAGARA, the Howard Gould yacht, had a Style 5 Welte orchestrion.

 - NOMA, the W. B. Leeds yacht, had a Style 4 Welte orchestrion.

 - ISIS, the Spaulding steamer, had a 2/15 Estey organ.

 - The yacht for Col. Deeds had a 2/9 Skinner organ in 1929.

Most of the rest of the oceangoing steam yachts had a piano.

Jim Crank


(Message sent Fri 23 Dec 2005, 16:20:25 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.)

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