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Actions	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Image(s) TitleRoll-Playing Orchestrion, 'Philipps Pianella Paganini' Creator J.D. Philipps & Söhne (orchestrionbouwer)‎ PlaceFrankfurt am Main (Germany) Year ca. 1921 Object number0027 Object categorymechanical instruments with organ pipes, orchestrions Object nameorchestrion with organ pipes, orchestrion with roll DescriptionThis rather sleek, mahogany cabinet with romantic motifs conceals a lot of technology. The lower section houses a Duca reproduction piano, the bellows with magazine for supplying wind to the organ pipes and the suction bellows for the pneumatic system (working on a vacuum). All this is driven by an electric motor. At the top, in a closed-off section, are several organ pipe registers, a harmonium and the percussion. In the roof of the case are shutters that open and close to regulate the dynamics of the pipe registers, and thus of the music as a whole. A total of 468 organ pipes are present, as well as a harmonium with 3 reed registers. The roll reading mechanism has 130 pneumatic contact points of which 85 are for notes and the rest for register, dynamics, percussion, switching the mechanisms on and off and winding the rolls back. Changing the rolls is done by means of a rotating system containing 10 rolls (usually with 4 songs each). This can provide continuous music for over 2 hours. Accompanying textsThe Pianella Paganini is Philipps & Söhne’s flagship model and the largest remaining orchestrion of this company. Superlatives apply in abundance: this cabinet of over 3 meters high houses an instrumentation which can replace a 15 piece orchestra. Its organ pipes in all kinds of timbres, percussion, piano, harmonium etc. make up an entire ensemble. As many as 10 paper music rolls can be played using a revolving mechanism, allowing for more than 2 hours of continuous play, without a person having to intervene. A true showpiece from the roaring twenties for the Brussels Brasserie in which it played up until the 1950s. Dit ‘model 14’ is een topmodel van de firma Philipps en het grootste originele, nog bestaande orchestrion dat door hen werd gemaakt. Het instrument stond tot in de 50er jaren van de 20ste eeuw in een Brusselse brasserie (onbekend waar precies) en later in de verzameling van Pierre van Roy in Aalst (België). Door de zeer uitgebreide muzikale mogelijkheden zouden we dit orchestrion wel het beste voorbeeld van dit type kunnen noemen en daarmee een hoogtepunt van de roaring twenties! Dimensions geheel height: 355 cm geheel width: 250 cm geheel depth: 170 cm zonder timpaan height: 330 cm Keywordsprogrammadrager: roll geluidsbron: organ pipes geluidsbron: strings geluidsbron: percussie Digital references

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TitleRoll-Playing Orchestrion, 'Philipps Pianella Paganini'

Creator J.D. Philipps & Söhne (orchestrionbouwer)‎

PlaceFrankfurt am Main (Germany)

Year ca. 1921

Object number0027

Object categorymechanical instruments with organ pipes, orchestrions

Object nameorchestrion with organ pipes, orchestrion with roll

DescriptionThis rather sleek, mahogany cabinet with romantic motifs conceals a lot of technology. The lower section houses a Duca reproduction piano, the bellows with magazine for supplying wind to the organ pipes and the suction bellows for the pneumatic system (working on a vacuum). All this is driven by an electric motor. At the top, in a closed-off section, are several organ pipe registers, a harmonium and the percussion. In the roof of the case are shutters that open and close to regulate the dynamics of the pipe registers, and thus of the music as a whole. A total of 468 organ pipes are present, as well as a harmonium with 3 reed registers. The roll reading mechanism has 130 pneumatic contact points of which 85 are for notes and the rest for register, dynamics, percussion, switching the mechanisms on and off and winding the rolls back. Changing the rolls is done by means of a rotating system containing 10 rolls (usually with 4 songs each). This can provide continuous music for over 2 hours.

Accompanying textsThe Pianella Paganini is Philipps & Söhne’s flagship model and the largest remaining orchestrion of this company. Superlatives apply in abundance: this cabinet of over 3 meters high houses an instrumentation which can replace a 15 piece orchestra. Its organ pipes in all kinds of timbres, percussion, piano, harmonium etc. make up an entire ensemble. As many as 10 paper music rolls can be played using a revolving mechanism, allowing for more than 2 hours of continuous play, without a person having to intervene. A true showpiece from the roaring twenties for the Brussels Brasserie in which it played up until the 1950s.

Dit ‘model 14’ is een topmodel van de firma Philipps en het grootste originele, nog bestaande orchestrion dat door hen werd gemaakt. Het instrument stond tot in de 50er jaren van de 20ste eeuw in een Brusselse brasserie (onbekend waar precies) en later in de verzameling van Pierre van Roy in Aalst (België). Door de zeer uitgebreide muzikale mogelijkheden zouden we dit orchestrion wel het beste voorbeeld van dit type kunnen noemen en daarmee een hoogtepunt van de roaring twenties!

Dimensions

geheel height: 355 cm
geheel width: 250 cm
geheel depth: 170 cm
zonder timpaan height: 330 cm

Keywordsprogrammadrager: roll
geluidsbron: organ pipes
geluidsbron: strings
geluidsbron: percussie

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