THE "ÆOLIAN ORCHESTRELLE."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 374, 27 April 1910, Page 2

THE "ÆOLIAN ORCHESTRELLE."

A MARVELLOUS INSTRUMENT. The "Aeolian Orchestrelle" is the latest marvel in musical instruments, and Mr. L. E. Hoffmann, the New Plymouth manager of the British and Continental Piano Company, lias disposed of a vf>y fine model to a New Plymouth resident. We are given to understand t'nac the price is in the neighborhood of £250. What is an orchestrelle? It is an instrument resumbling an organ, much the same as the pianola bears a blanee to a piano. And, like the pianola,] it is an instrument capable of being played by a performer without ths skill and musical knowledge required !)y tfle ■player of a piano or an organ, yet enables the performer to produce all th.} wealth and variety of tone and tempo required in. the interpretation of music by the world's greatest composers, lhe orchestrelle is a two-fold instrument. In the first place, it is provided with a clavier of full compass, throiigh "be agency of which any suitable compositions can be rendered by the finger 3 of the performer. In the second pMce, it is provided with that most ingc 11 u;3 instrument. the aeolicnne, by me.-'.ns of which the most complicated orchestral scores and music of the most e'.aborfit character can 'be perfectly rendere l vi'h out the performer having to touch a single manual key, requiring him only to control the-tonal forces <4 the instnmient, and to impart the desired expression, and to regulate tli3 tempo of the music. .The performer li*?, a». it were, a sin-all orchestra at his command, which answers, every impuls > his mind, and which he controls with lhe same precision and rapidity as does t-ie conductor control the num'iroiu instruments of the grand orchestra. It is truly a remarkable instrument, in the front rank of musical instruments required for the hom\ ] i is noteworthy that the tabt.vof children is as readily niliivate As' ivat of older people,-because their intellects are pliable and receptive and, eager ■ to b' molded. Tlie Aeolian Oretfe'stMre/'by <?i ltivatinj* the +aste 'm.l musical understanding, instils into anyone, old or yruno'. q desire to lea-vn to plav =oine form of musical instrument, often acquiring a practical, knowledge of music obtainable in no other way in so sbort a time. j