House Organ

Until last week a music room the size of a cathedral, a pipe chamber big as a master's bedroom and an initial outlay ranging from $15,000 to $100,000 were requirements for owning a house organ. Wilmington's Pierre S. du Pont, Hollywood's Cecil B. De Mille, New York's Charles M. Schwab, 2,000 other rich Americans and a great number of cinemansions own organs. Instance of Depression's spur to invention, Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. demonstrated in Manhattan last week a new instrument, smaller, cheaper.

Most of the important organ stops nestle in the new Aeolian-Skinner console. There is a flute celeste, chimney flute, vox humana, piccolo, harp. But there are two manuals against most organs' four and the 427 pipes fit into a nine-by-six-foot closet. The new organ costs $6,000, a new low for full-scale electrically reproducing instruments. It will play any and all of Aeolian's famed $750,000 library of organ rolls--costing $2 to $10 each.

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