THE ORGANO-HARMONICA.
Tars instrument, lately exhibited at the Hanover Square Rooms, and now removed for inspection to Novello's in Dean Street, is an ion- proved kind of seraphine, of greater compass, and more rapidity in answering to the touch, It contains two manuals-the upper one a swell of considerable extent, the lower one extending to C C C, with rather more than two octaves of pedals. This unusual compass is ob- tained without unmanageable bulk ; and the effects of grand organ mu- sic-fugues, trios, &c., together with all the evolutions of the pedals- may be thus studied in the quiet and comfort of the drawingroom. Its scale being exactly that of the great organs now built, it is calculated materially to advance the power of execution on that instrument. In- dependently of this, the Organo-harmonica is capable of very pleasing combinations and effects; it is well adapted to accompany sacred sing- ing, and is likely to be more various and effective for that purpose than a very small organ. In recommending this instrument to the notice of amateurs and organists as a cheap and convenient succedaneum for grand-organ practice, we confess that its contingent advantages are up- permost in our mind : we expect to hear more of the fugues of BACH, and better played.
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