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Choralcelo #3 Ribbon Steel Unit

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Choralcelo #3 Ribbon Steel Unit

Maker: Choralcelo Company
Date: 1916 ca.
Place Made:Boston, 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.
Credit Line: Gift of C. Wade Jenkins, 2006
Not on view
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
Object number: 11316