Name sometimes given to a piano with ranks of pipes, usually one full rank and one partial rank, built into the same case (e.g., Reproduco, Nelson-Wiggen Selector Duplex Organ, Seeburg Style MO ). Used in theatres and mortuaries in the 1915-1930 years. Theatre instruments were voiced loudly; those made for mortuaries were usually voiced very softly.

Italian term for soft. 2. The stringed keyboard instrument. The related German word klavier variously means piano (the musical instrument) or keyboard.

1. Aeolian Company brand name for push-up piano players and player pianos. 2. Generic name for any player piano, also listed in this Glossary.

A large cylinder musical box with one or more mechanical birds on display. The birds are made to move and to "sing" in harmony with the pinned cylinder.

1. Pipe rank in orchestrions and band organs; similar in appearance to a wooden flute pipe and used in the top one or two treble octaves of the musical scale. 2. In orchestrions the name sometimes given to the upper range of a rank of flute pipes. (A rank of flutes is sometimes elaborately described as being a rank of "bourdon, flute, and piccolo" pipes, bourdon and piccolo referring to the lower and upper ranges.) 3. In band organs, a metal pipe, usually of polished brass, which is blown transversely (across the bottom of the pipe, rather than into the pipe) at high pressure. Usually with a wooden acorn-shaped plug at the top of the pipe. 4. In theatre pipe organs, a 2′ stop of brightly-voiced wood or metal flute pipes.