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TitleChamber Barrel Organ 'the Freule'
Creator Diederich Nicolaus Winkel (orchestrionbouwer)
PlaceAmsterdam (The Netherlands)
Year 1819
Object number0071
Object categorymechanical instruments with organ pipes
Object namechamber organ, organ with cylinder
DescriptionMost mechanical chamber organs have four or five gears that set all the different movements in motion, but Diederich Nicolaus Winkel ingeniously managed to reduce the entire mechanism to one gear. And that one gear takes care of no less than four functions: the direct drive of the wind wing to regulate the tempo, the regular pumping movement of the two-scoop bellows, the rotation and shifting of the cylinder and the lifting of the keyboard when the cylinder springs back to its initial position. The stop key bears the inscription: D.N.W. INVENIT 1819.
Accompanying textsThe music is always played on a series of decked wooden 8' pipes that sound the chromatic tone series d' a'''. The pipes sound a semitone lower than their nominal value indicates (note names are written on the pipes). The stop key operates an additional series of unison (i.e. giving the same pitch) open wooden pipes with a somewhat nasal, bowing timbre. These, when switched on, add colour and enhance the music.
Accompanying the instrument are 6 cylinders with spiral notation:
1. Tyrolean song, variations by Mozart.
2. God save the king and Wilhelmus van Nassauwen with variations
3. Cavatine and fugue from The Barber of Seville (Rossini)
4. Cavatine andante palpiti varie (Gelineck)
5. Il Matrimonio segreto (Cimarosa).
6. _______ (Mozart)
The instrument stood in the Voorland country estate in Amsterdam's Watergraafsmeer district, which was owned by the wealthy art collector Lucretia Johanna van Winter (1785-1845) and her husband Mr Hendrik Six (1790-1847). In 1934, this country house was demolished for the construction of Ajax's De Meer stadium. The organ was donated to Museum Speelklok in 1967 by Freule Catharina Isabella Six (1897-1986), one of the descendants of the Six-van Winter couple.
Winkel did not give his instruments names. That makes it more difficult to talk about them, so over time the Winkel instruments in this museum have all ended up with their own (nick)name. In this case, the organ owes the name 'the Freule' to its donor.
Accompanying the instrument are 6 cylinders with spiral notation:
1. Tyrolean song, variations by Mozart.
2. God save the king and Wilhelmus van Nassauwen with variations
3. Cavatine and fugue from The Barber of Seville (Rossini)
4. Cavatine andante palpiti varie (Gelineck)
5. Il Matrimonio segreto (Cimarosa).
6. _______ (Mozart)
The instrument stood in the Voorland country estate in Amsterdam's Watergraafsmeer district, which was owned by the wealthy art collector Lucretia Johanna van Winter (1785-1845) and her husband Mr Hendrik Six (1790-1847). In 1934, this country house was demolished for the construction of Ajax's De Meer stadium. The organ was donated to Museum Speelklok in 1967 by Freule Catharina Isabella Six (1897-1986), one of the descendants of the Six-van Winter couple.
Winkel did not give his instruments names. That makes it more difficult to talk about them, so over time the Winkel instruments in this museum have all ended up with their own (nick)name. In this case, the organ owes the name 'the Freule' to its donor.
Dimensions
geheel height: 184 cm
geheel width: 108 cm
geheel depth: 50.5 cm
met deuren open width: 195 cm
deuren recht vooruit depth: 93 cm
geheel width: 108 cm
geheel depth: 50.5 cm
met deuren open width: 195 cm
deuren recht vooruit depth: 93 cm
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