Instrument Collection
Title
Description
The Bilhorn, folding portable organ was invented by Peter Philip Bilhorn around 1885. Peter Bilhorn was an evangelist singer and composer who invented the portable organ for his evangelistic activities. He and his brother founded the Bilhorn Brother Organ Company in Chicago. The instruments were sold in big department stores such as Sears & Roebuck. The company exhibited the organs at numerous World Fairs where they were awarded six Grand Prizes for greatest volume, greatest variety of tone, sweetest quality in tone, highest excellence in materials, workmanship, compactness & finish, and mechanical ingenuity.
Date
1885
Repository
Charles H. Templeton Sr. Music Museum
Status
On Display
Instrument Number
41
Digital ID#
242
Document Type
Image
Contact Information
For more information about the contents of this collection, e-mail sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.
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Recommended Citation
Sears, Roebuck and Company, "The Billhorn Organ" (1885). Instrument Collection. 69.
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/cht-instrument/69
Keywords
instrument, player, phonograph
Notes
Circa 1885