Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-01-30 | Page 4 | Organ Displaces the Orchestra

menu DISPLACES i 1 OBGHESHU The Ogden theatre orchestra, whose work has greatly pleased the patrons of that playhouse for a number of months, Is to be replaced this evening eve-ning with a new photo-play organ. The organ arrived in the city on Thursday and has been installed In the orchestra orches-tra pit by an eastern organ expert. Tt Is eighteen feet in length and weighs nearly three tons and in makeup make-up Is a combination of musical instruments. instru-ments. It is not a mechanical In-strument. In-strument. while its mechanism is remarkable re-markable in many respects, but 13 so be operated by Harold Fleming, the pianist member of the retiring orchestra. orches-tra. Among the instruments included in the organ are the oboe, violin, piano bells, cornet, clarinet, harp, pipe organ, or-gan, cello, flute and drums. It Is operated by tbe rolls, or by the hands .1 of the operator playing from sheet music. h