Until last week a music room the size of a cathedral, a pipe chamber big as a master's bedroom and an initial outlay ranging from $15,000 to $100,000 were requirements for owning a house organ. Wilmington's Pierre S. du Pont, Hollywood's Cecil B. De Mille, New York's Charles M. Schwab, 2,000 other rich Americans and a great number of cinemansions own organs. Instance of Depression's spur to invention, Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. demonstrated in Manhattan last week a new instrument, smaller, cheaper.
Most of the important organ stops nestle in the new Aeolian-Skinner console....
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