Organette

The Organette was a mechanical free-reed programmable (automatic) musical instrument first manufactured in the late 1870s by several companies such as John McTammany of Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Autophone Company of Ithaca, New York, the Automatic Organ Co of Boston, Massachusetts, E.P.

Draper of Blackburn, England, Paul Ehrlich & Co. of Leipzig, Germany, and The Mechanical Orguinette Co. of New York, NY as well as other manufacturers worldwide.

Air pressure or vacuum was produced by hand-, crank- or foot-operated mechanical bellows.

Various patents credit Henry Bishop Horton (1819-1885; co-founder of the Ithaca Calendar Clock Co),[4][5] John McTammany (1845-1915),[6][7] Paul Ehrlich[6] and others with inventing the organette.

The most remarkable feature of this invention is the regularity and perfection with which the music is rendered.