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Electric chord organ
Date: 1955-1965 ca.
Place Made:Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Model: Celebrity Model 172
Serial No: none
SignedIn plastic, gold-colored letting on front: Noble
MarkingsEach row of chord buttons is labeled, respectively: COUNTER / BASS; FUND. / BASS; MAJOR; MINOR; SEVENTH; DIMINISHED
Note names on each button of three (3) rows of the chord buttons.
Numeric designation above keys of keyboard, likely corresponding to a tutor/method book sold with the instrument.
On metal badge attached to bottom: TO REMOVE LEGS PRESS / IN AND LIFT OUT
Note names on each button of three (3) rows of the chord buttons.
Numeric designation above keys of keyboard, likely corresponding to a tutor/method book sold with the instrument.
On metal badge attached to bottom: TO REMOVE LEGS PRESS / IN AND LIFT OUT
DescriptionWood case, laminted. Thirty-four (34) keys - two plus octaves with additional bass notes. Seventy-two (72) chord buttons. Swell lever.
DimensionsHeight (with legs): 780 mm
Width: 725 mm
Depth: 300 mm
Width: 725 mm
Depth: 300 mm
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Terms
Credit Line: Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Not on view
Object number: 04644