Commercial vessels were not the only ships where automatic musical
instruments were to be found. Several of the grand steam yachts were
also equipped with player pipe organs.
- DELPHINE, the Dodge yacht, had a 2/16 Aeolian with the Duo-Art player.
- MAY, the yacht for Capt. De Lamar, had a 2/12 Aeolian.
- HILDEGARD, the Whitlock steam yacht, had an Aeolian in 1898, their
first one aboard a ship.
- NIAGARA, the Howard Gould yacht, had a Style 5 Welte orchestrion.
- NOMA, the W. B. Leeds yacht, had a Style 4 Welte orchestrion.
- ISIS, the Spaulding steamer, had a 2/15 Estey organ.
- The yacht for Col. Deeds had a 2/9 Skinner organ in 1929.
Most of the rest of the oceangoing steam yachts had a piano.
Jim Crank
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