In digest 96.07.10, Gerard Arkenbout writes:

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> Subject: Chordephon player
>
> Dear Musiclovers,
>
>    A friend of mine has constructed a sixty (60) strings "CHORDEPHON"
> type music-player.  However the tuning of this instrument is not known
> to him.  Has one of you experience with te "chordephon", the name of
> this instrument in the past.

I am familiar with and have plans to build a "V'olion"; this was a
violin-imitative instrument developed by the Robert Morton Organ
Company to compete with the MiIls Violano Theater instrument,  but was
intended to be wired into their theater organ consoles.  A constantly
rotating resined cone was at the center, and long coiled springs of
various diameter were pushed into this "bow" by pneumatics.  Does this
Chordephon sound anything like the V'olion?

Cheers;

S K Goodman