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Actions	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Image(s) TitleStreet Organ 'the Gasparini' CreatorFoucher-Gasparini (organbuilder)‎ PlaceParis (France) Year ca. 1910 Object number0080 Object categorymechanical instruments with organ pipes Object namestreet organ, organ with book DescriptionThis 52-key model was Gasparini's biggest success, commercially speaking. The fronts could be supplied in different styles. Originally built as a barrel organ, this organ was converted into the book organ we know today in Gasparini's own factory around 1900. The instrument features three organ images: one conductor and two bell-ringing ladies. Accompanying textsAlthough the instrument was used as a fairground organ in France in recent years, in terms of instrumentation and sound the organ is not dissimilar to the first Dutch street organs. Still present with the organ are a number of original organ books from Gasparini's factory. Also present are a number of books by the firm of Pellevoisin (a partner of the Gasparini firm) and some by Dutch street organ arrangers Piet Maas, Louis van Deventer and Wilhelm Mayer. Alexandre Gasparini settled in Paris from Lombardy (northern Italy) after the War of 1870. There he initially joined Gavioli, before starting his own firm. After his death, his son-in-law, Foucher, took over the firm and it became known as Foucher-Gasparini. In the 1919 Music Trades Directory of Paris, Foucher-Gasparini was listed as the successor to Alexandre Gasparini. By this time, most of the firm's work concentrated on automatic barrel pianos. Book organs were still made, but covered only a small part of total production. Gasparini organs were originally used in France as fairground or dance organs. Just after 1900, Gasparini organs were imported as the first book organs by organ rental company Warnies in Amsterdam and rented out as street organs. But Gasparini organs also operated as fairground organs until around 1920. Dimensions geheel height: 305 cm geheel width: 305 cm geheel depth: 180 cm zonder kap height: 230 cm Keywordsprogrammadrager: organ book geluidsbron: organ pipes aandrijving: muscle power aandrijving: elektromotor klavier keys Digital references

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TitleStreet Organ 'the Gasparini'

CreatorFoucher-Gasparini (organbuilder)‎

PlaceParis (France)

Year ca. 1910

Object number0080

Object categorymechanical instruments with organ pipes

Object namestreet organ, organ with book

DescriptionThis 52-key model was Gasparini's biggest success, commercially speaking. The fronts could be supplied in different styles. Originally built as a barrel organ, this organ was converted into the book organ we know today in Gasparini's own factory around 1900. The instrument features three organ images: one conductor and two bell-ringing ladies.

Accompanying textsAlthough the instrument was used as a fairground organ in France in recent years, in terms of instrumentation and sound the organ is not dissimilar to the first Dutch street organs. Still present with the organ are a number of original organ books from Gasparini's factory. Also present are a number of books by the firm of Pellevoisin (a partner of the Gasparini firm) and some by Dutch street organ arrangers Piet Maas, Louis van Deventer and Wilhelm Mayer.

Alexandre Gasparini settled in Paris from Lombardy (northern Italy) after the War of 1870. There he initially joined Gavioli, before starting his own firm. After his death, his son-in-law, Foucher, took over the firm and it became known as Foucher-Gasparini. In the 1919 Music Trades Directory of Paris, Foucher-Gasparini was listed as the successor to Alexandre Gasparini. By this time, most of the firm's work concentrated on automatic barrel pianos. Book organs were still made, but covered only a small part of total production.

Gasparini organs were originally used in France as fairground or dance organs. Just after 1900, Gasparini organs were imported as the first book organs by organ rental company Warnies in Amsterdam and rented out as street organs. But Gasparini organs also operated as fairground organs until around 1920.

Dimensions

geheel height: 305 cm
geheel width: 305 cm
geheel depth: 180 cm
zonder kap height: 230 cm

Keywordsprogrammadrager: organ book
geluidsbron: organ pipes
aandrijving: muscle power
aandrijving: elektromotor
klavier keys

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