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TitleDance Organ 'Aalster Gavioli'
CreatorGavioli et Cie (organbuilder)
PlaceParis (France)
Year ca. 1900 - ca. 1905
Object number0007
Object categorymechanical instruments with organ pipes
Object namedance organ, organ with book
DescriptionThis French dance organ with a book-reading system has 65 keys. Keys are the ‘scanners’ which read information about the music (e.g. the notes of the melody) and the stops, as well as the small and large drums and cymbal.
Accompanying textsThe musical range of an organ is divided into bass and accompaniments, a melody part and a countermelody part, percussion, and the stops. The stops of this organ include violin, piccolo, trombone, baritone and clarinet.
Along with the organ the museum also holds a collection of original Gavioli repertoire from 1902-1904, as well as repertoire from the time of Museum Speelklok. This repertoire includes arrangements by Romke de Waard, Tom Meijer and Jan Kees de Ruijter.
The organ was manufactured in the period 1900-1905 by Gavioli and then sold in Belgium by Theophile Mortier, whose name is therefore also mentioned on the façade (but in this case has nothing to do with its construction!). The organ was rented out for parties by the organ rental firm Fondu in Brussels. After this company ceased to exist following WWII, the organ was preserved by Mr Pierre van Roy in Aalst (Belgium) and kept in his own home. To this the organ owes its beautiful preservation and the name 'Aalster Gavioli' (which the organ was given in Utrecht). In 1957, the instrument was bought by the museum and placed on display.
While the musical range is not unique, the organ front certainly is. It is richly decorated and has its own style. The painting is most probably not original and of Belgian origin. The four beautiful organ sculptures were made by the Italian/Austrian sculptor brothers Demetz.
Along with the organ the museum also holds a collection of original Gavioli repertoire from 1902-1904, as well as repertoire from the time of Museum Speelklok. This repertoire includes arrangements by Romke de Waard, Tom Meijer and Jan Kees de Ruijter.
The organ was manufactured in the period 1900-1905 by Gavioli and then sold in Belgium by Theophile Mortier, whose name is therefore also mentioned on the façade (but in this case has nothing to do with its construction!). The organ was rented out for parties by the organ rental firm Fondu in Brussels. After this company ceased to exist following WWII, the organ was preserved by Mr Pierre van Roy in Aalst (Belgium) and kept in his own home. To this the organ owes its beautiful preservation and the name 'Aalster Gavioli' (which the organ was given in Utrecht). In 1957, the instrument was bought by the museum and placed on display.
While the musical range is not unique, the organ front certainly is. It is richly decorated and has its own style. The painting is most probably not original and of Belgian origin. The four beautiful organ sculptures were made by the Italian/Austrian sculptor brothers Demetz.
Dimensions
geheel height: 414 cm
geheel width: 662 cm
geheel depth: 105 cm
geheel width: 662 cm
geheel depth: 105 cm
Keywordsprogrammadrager: organ book
geluidsbron: organ pipes
geluidsbron: percussion
aandrijving: muscle power
geluidsbron: organ pipes
geluidsbron: percussion
aandrijving: muscle power
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