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Actions	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Image(s) TitlePortable Street Barrel Organ with Six Automatons Creator Ignaz Blasius Bruder (organbuilder)‎ PlaceWaldkirch (Germany) Year ca. 1830 Object number0070 Object categorymechanical instruments with organ pipes Object nameportable barrel organ, organ with cylinder DescriptionThis little organ lured passers-by with more than just its cheerful music. When the lid is opened, magicians and moving figures perform tricks. On the left back is a small lever that allows you to control the little man in the corner, who then holds up his hand to receive money. We also see two ladies making music and an elaborate ball game on a table, with dice and other objects (such as a little bird) also appearing. Accompanying textsThis cylinder street organ has 25 keys, 8 melodies, and 3 manually switchable registers of organ pipes. The organ still plays its original - popular, simple - music, as the cylinder has never been replaced. This little organ dates from the first half of the 19th century. The Black Forest (barrel) organ and musical clock builder Ignaz Bruder (1780-1845) is generally considered the founder of the successful Waldkirch barrel organ building trade. He is the progenitor of an important dynasty of barrel organ builders: Ignaz Bruder Söhne; Wilhelm Bruder Söhne; Gebrüder Bruder; Alfred Bruder. This dynasty left a clear mark on German barrel organ building in the period 1830-1930. Dimensions geheel height: 55 cm geheel width: 60 cm geheel depth: 33.5 cm cilinder width: 50 cm cilinder diameter: 11 cm Keywordsprogrammadrager: cylinder geluidsbron: playing comb aandrijving: muscle power klavier keys Digital references

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TitlePortable Street Barrel Organ with Six Automatons

Creator Ignaz Blasius Bruder (organbuilder)‎

PlaceWaldkirch (Germany)

Year ca. 1830

Object number0070

Object categorymechanical instruments with organ pipes

Object nameportable barrel organ, organ with cylinder

DescriptionThis little organ lured passers-by with more than just its cheerful music. When the lid is opened, magicians and moving figures perform tricks. On the left back is a small lever that allows you to control the little man in the corner, who then holds up his hand to receive money. We also see two ladies making music and an elaborate ball game on a table, with dice and other objects (such as a little bird) also appearing.

Accompanying textsThis cylinder street organ has 25 keys, 8 melodies, and 3 manually switchable registers of organ pipes. The organ still plays its original - popular, simple - music, as the cylinder has never been replaced.

This little organ dates from the first half of the 19th century. The Black Forest (barrel) organ and musical clock builder Ignaz Bruder (1780-1845) is generally considered the founder of the successful Waldkirch barrel organ building trade. He is the progenitor of an important dynasty of barrel organ builders: Ignaz Bruder Söhne; Wilhelm Bruder Söhne; Gebrüder Bruder; Alfred Bruder. This dynasty left a clear mark on German barrel organ building in the period 1830-1930.

Dimensions

geheel height: 55 cm
geheel width: 60 cm
geheel depth: 33.5 cm
cilinder width: 50 cm
cilinder diameter: 11 cm

Keywordsprogrammadrager: cylinder
geluidsbron: playing comb
aandrijving: muscle power
klavier keys

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