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WW2 Portable Harmonium

Still going through my email backlog, here we have some photos that Bruce from Radio Noir sent me way back in December last year. They are of a portable harmonium that dates back to WW2, and is still in use.

Janko Harmonium Organ

Janko Harmonium Organ, originally uploaded by Ragtimer1.

This is a Janko keyboard on a harmonium.
To its right is a piano with both Janko and standard keyboards.
These are in Vienna's Technical Museum.

Home Made Harmonium

Francoise, originally uploaded by ofacteur.

Ok, I'm trying to catching up on a bucket load of email.

Dean wrote to me way back in February as he's building a two manual French style harmonium using original Esteve reeds. He has a whole set of photos on Flickr for our perusal.

Click the photo and it should take you there.

Apfelregal

Regal Apples, originally uploaded by Ragtimer1.

Here's another shot, from a different angle.

Early free reed organ

Early free reed organ, originally uploaded by Boilermonster.

I believe that this is an Apfelregal, an early portable reed organ. The globular resonators give a more mellow tone than the raw reeds of simpler regals. That was reconstructed from ancient models for Vienna's Technical Museum.