1844, Hood's Magazine and Comic Miscellany, page 584-586:
Still he did not appear, and, after sundry oaths and exclamations from the more impatient of the party, it was concluded to start without him, and take the chance of his joining us later. The beaters, thirty or forty ragged boys, each with his orgel (a flat piece of wood with keys, which, turned by a handle, made a prodigious rattling) hung round his neck, where stationed some ten paces apart, lining three sides of the wood. […] I fired, and, as he fell, the baron slipped the thong from his pointer. "Allez, Perdro!" said he, "schön apporte, mein hund;" and the dog flew to fetch the fallen game. […] The distant rattle of the orgels coming over the mountain showed that our allies were approaching, […] It had been found necessary to add to the number of our beaters; and the orgels being exchanged for sticks, they formed a crescent, […]
Because of the comparatively small space in the usual "orgels" they are hardly suitable for experiments with insects which need to fly, and this especially applies to "orgels" where the varied ecological conditions are simulated in small boxes, communicating with each other only via a small opening near the bottom. Such "orgels" are of course very useful for [other things]. […]
In order to moderate the sense of confinement of the beetles, I have used "orgels" of a fairly large size. The height (10 cm) and the diameter (44.5 cm) has proved sufficient to permit the flight of the insects. The bottom of the apparatus presented ...
2010, James Rogers, Four Funny Screenplays by James Rogers, Lulu.com (→ISBN), page 27:
The last work included here [is] Fixing Mandy's Orgel (Do you know what an orgel is?) The humor of this piece has been described as “clever, subtle, explosive”.
