Music: Pipeless Organ

If a professional pool-player were suddenly confronted with a table the size of a Ouija board which answered all his requirements, he would have been no more amazed than the professional musicians who flocked last week to hear a new electrical organ on view at the Industrial Arts Exposition in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center. This new organ had no pipes. It was much smaller than a small upright piano and it cost only $1,250, as compared with $4,000 & up for most pipe organs.

Composer George Gershwin was one of the first skeptical listeners but...

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