Choralcelo #3 Ribbon Steel Unit
Maker
Choralcelo Company
Date1916 ca.
Place MadeBoston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
DescriptionA steel-ribbon remote unit (notes 1-66, i.e., CC to f3), "survived from an instrument in a theater in Stockbridge" (Massachusetts), according to Wade Jenkins' label on it. Perhaps, however, from the instrument listed in the opus list as installed in the Phelps Theatre in Southbridge, Mass., in March 1916. (No instrument for Stockbridge is listed.)Steel ribbons kept under tension like piano strings.
Provenance"Survived from an instrument in a theater in Stockbridge" (Massachusetts), according to Wade Jenkins' label on it. Perhaps, however, from the instrument listed in the opus list as installed in the Phelps Theatre in Southbridge, Mass., in March 1916.
Published ReferencesJohn Koster, “Choralcelo, The- An Electrifying Acquisition- A Personal Odyssey,” _National Music Museum Newsletter _ 34, No. 1 (February 2007), pp. 4-5.
errata: #11316 is switched with #11317
Credit LineGift of C. Wade Jenkins, 2006
Object number11316
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