Pyrophone, also called Flame-organ, is a musical instrument invented about 1873 by Eugene Kastner (1852-82) of Paris, in which the musical tones are produced by flames of hydrogen gas burning in tubes of different sizes and lengths, arranged somewhat as in an ordinary organ.
Pyrophone
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 508
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