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Actions	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Image(s) TitleWall clock with calender Creator Giacomo Gavioli PlaceModena (Italië) Year 1861 Object number0149 Object categoryprops DescriptionA surrer striking work that strikes both the hours and the quarters. This clock has a 4/4 gong "grande sonnerie" and strikes every quarter hour (first once, then twice, three times and four times) as well as the current full hour on two bells. Much of the mechanism is made in wood. The clock also features an elaborate calendar. Accompanying texts The Gavioli family from Modena, Italy, was remarkably inventive in the field of mechanical musical instruments. The founder, Giacomo, was originally a wheelwright, but also made and restored (musical) clocks. His son Ludovico senior was a clockmaker and increasingly applied himself to self-playing automata and orchestrions. In 1852 Ludovico moved to Paris, where he started the barrel organ company "Gavioli et Cie" with son Anselmo. Anselmo invented the organ book in 1892. He was inspired by his brother Claude, who two years earlier had already invented a cardboard book for barrel organs. Organ books were cheaper and easier to make and change than music cylinders. This greatly expanded the repertoire possibilities. The business flourished. Anselmo's son - Ludovico junior - worked there from 1872 as an arranger. Due to financial problems, increasing competition and a number of dissatisfied customers, "Gavioli et Cie" eventually did not survive and in 1910 came into the hands of competitor "Limonaire Frères. Dimensions geheel height: 42 cm geheel width: 30 cm geheel depth: 24 cm

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TitleWall clock with calender

Creator Giacomo Gavioli

PlaceModena (Italië)

Year 1861

Object number0149

Object categoryprops

DescriptionA surrer striking work that strikes both the hours and the quarters. This clock has a 4/4 gong "grande sonnerie" and strikes every quarter hour (first once, then twice, three times and four times) as well as the current full hour on two bells. Much of the mechanism is made in wood. The clock also features an elaborate calendar.

Accompanying texts

The Gavioli family from Modena, Italy, was remarkably inventive in the field of mechanical musical instruments. The founder, Giacomo, was originally a wheelwright, but also made and restored (musical) clocks. His son Ludovico senior was a clockmaker and increasingly applied himself to self-playing automata and orchestrions. In 1852 Ludovico moved to Paris, where he started the barrel organ company "Gavioli et Cie" with son Anselmo. Anselmo invented the organ book in 1892. He was inspired by his brother Claude, who two years earlier had already invented a cardboard book for barrel organs. Organ books were cheaper and easier to make and change than music cylinders. This greatly expanded the repertoire possibilities. The business flourished. Anselmo's son - Ludovico junior - worked there from 1872 as an arranger. Due to financial problems, increasing competition and a number of dissatisfied customers, "Gavioli et Cie" eventually did not survive and in 1910 came into the hands of competitor "Limonaire Frères.

Dimensions

geheel height: 42 cm
geheel width: 30 cm
geheel depth: 24 cm

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