Apollonicon
The Apollonicon is a mechanical musical instrument built in 1817 by the English organ builder Flight & Robson in London .
The apollonicon had 1,900 pipes and was from 45 registers built drehorgel similar instrument, that of Johann Nepomuk Mälzel built Panharmonikon was modeled. An orchestra was supposed to be mimicked by combining organ and other sounds, such as piano and trumpets . The Apollonicon was one of the forerunners of the orchestrion . In addition to the automatic pen roller game , manual play was also possible. For this purpose, five keyboards were placed side by side to enable five musicians to play at the same time. One of these keyboards was assigned to playing the pedal and could thus be operated much more skillfully than with the feet.
A detailed English-language description with drawings can be found in Mechanics' Magazine of 1828.
The Apollonicon is also mentioned in the Polytechnisches Journal in 1828 with its German name as Apollonikon .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Detailed description in Mechanics Magazine, Volume 9, 1828, pages 97-103 (in English)
- ↑ Apollonikon. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 28, 1828, Miszelle 15, p. 167.