Peerless Wisteria Orchestrion

Peerless Wisteria Orchestrion.

(Photograph courtesy of Reblitz-Bowers Encyclopedia.)

Peerless Wisteria Orchestrion. Introduced in the Autumn of 1913, it plays 20,000 Series rewind “O” rolls. Instrumentation consisted of an 88-note piano (played by 66 notes in the roll plus bass and treble octave-couplers), a set of wooden violin or flute pipes, castanets, and triangle. The overall art glass presentation is truly beautiful, and while perhaps not obvious in this catalogue illustration, the top row of four art glass panels are three-dimensional, each consisting of white glass segments with brass stampings that bow outward, with green colored glass top and bottom pieces that are rounded outward:

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