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Show AMERICAN THEATER ORGAN IS IMPROVED Improvements and additions costing $15,000 have been made to the pipe organ in the American theater, and the changes give the organ a far greater range of expression ex-pression than it possessed heretofore, according ac-cording to Leo F. Schoenstein, of San Francisco, who has been in the city for several weeks past, supervising the work. Ho explains that the changes which have been made give the organ a greater i degree of flexibility, and make it respond I more quickly to any desired effect. Thus ! nothing which might appear in a picture 1 "is incapable of Wing interpreted on the organ. The various affects, such as the snare-drums, crash symbols, tambourines, enstinets. tom-toms, Chinese wood blocks and tympani or kettle drums, are doubled. This "adds greatly !o the tunes produced by tho sounding of these effects, making It Impossible to detect the difference between be-tween the organ souncts. and the actual histru monts. The organ now has 36A0 pipes. . |