Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1916 — Princess Theatre Installs $2,000 Pipe Organ Orchestra. [ARTICLE]

Princess Theatre Installs $2,000 Pipe Organ Orchestra.

The Princess Theatre under the new management of J. W. Shawcross, is rapidly forging to the front, the attractions being the very latest and the best to be secured. Mr. Shawcross has a surprise for his patrons this evening, having today installed a Seeburg pipe-organ orchestra at a cost of $2,000. Ths® is something new for this section, an entire orchestra being embodied >.n the instrument. The instrument runs by electric motor, its length feet, 10 inches, and its weight 1,800 pounds. Each roll of music contains five selections. Embodied in the 88note piano is the flute, piccolo, melodia, bass-8 foot, organ swell, tremolo, snare drum, tympani, cymbal, castanets, tom-tom, fire gong, steamboat whistle, bird whistle, doorbell, telephone bell, horse trot, mandolin and triangle.