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In 1875 Martha opened the first shelter for refuges in Belton, Texas delivering services for battered wives thrives from the 1890s and was the founder of religious Sanctificationist group that stands for women should not be compelled to live without sanctified or an brutal husband and women's who followed her attempts to lives husband's who ...
The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called wind) through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard.Because each pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks, each of which has a common timbre, volume, and construction throughout the keyboard compass.
These pipe organs use a piano roll player or other mechanical means instead of a keyboard to play a prepared song: Orchestrion; Fairground organ (or band organ in the USA) Dutch street organ; Dance organ; The wind can also be created by using pressurized steam instead of air. The steam organ, or calliope, was invented in the United States in ...
On April 26, 1941 Ray Nelson entertained fans that showed up early with a pipe organ behind the ballpark's grandstands. The Chicago Tribune notes that Nelson had to cut the music before the first ...
Maude E. Craig Sampson Williams (February 1880 – March 13, 1958) was an American suffragist, teacher, civil rights leader, and community activist in El Paso, Texas.In June 1918, she formed the El Paso Negro Woman's Civic and Equal Franchise League and requested membership in the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) through the Texas Equal Suffrage Association (TESA), but was ...
Hope-Jones 16 ft open wood pipes prior to removal from All Saints' Church, Upper Norwood. Robert Hope-Jones (9 February 1859 – 13 September 1914) was an English musician who is considered to be the inventor of the theatre organ in the early 20th century.
In Dallas, Texas, women reformers did much to establish the fundamental elements of the social structure of the city, focusing their energies on families, schools, and churches during the city's pioneer days. Many of the organizations which created a modern urban scene were founded and led by middle-class women.
Donald James Leslie (April 13, 1911 – September 2, 2004) was an American inventor best known for the Leslie speaker and its distinctive effect commonly used with the Hammond organ which helped popularize electronic instruments.