Apollonicon

The Apollo Nicon is a 1817 built by the English organ builder Flight & Robson in London mechanical musical instrument.

The Apollo Nicon had 1,900 pipes and was constructed from 45 registers drehorgel similar instrument, which was modeled after the built by Johann Nepomuk Mälzel Panharmonikon. The combination of organ and other sounds, such as piano and drums, an orchestra should be imitated. The Apollo Nicon was the forerunner of the fairground. In addition to automatic pin roll to play the hand game was possible. For this purpose, five keyboards were mounted side by side, to allow five musicians, at the same time players. One of these keyboards was assigned to the pedal play and was so very much more skilful than their feet are pressed.

A detailed English language description with drawings can be found in the Mechanics Magazine from 1828.

The Apollo Nicon is also mentioned in the 1828 Polytechnic Journal with eingedeutschtem name as Apollo Nikon.