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TitleChamber Barrel Organ
CreatorImhof & Mukle (manufacturer)
PlaceLondon (England)
Year ca. 1855
Object number0993
Object categorymechanical instruments with organ pipes
Object namechamber organ, organ with cylinder
DescriptionPowered by a weight, the organ has 70 keys and nine music cylinders. Four of the cylinders can be stored in the lower case of the organ itself, while the rest have a separate storage case.
Accompanying textsThe currently identified repertoire on the nine cylinders includes: British and Irish folk songs, such as "Auld Robin Gray," "Blue Bells of Scotland" and "Love not"; music from popular romantic operas, such as Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz, Gioachino Rossini's Tancredi, Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and Vincenzo Bellini's Norma; and "God Save the Queen”.
Daniel Imhof & Leopold Mukle began working together as such in 1855; the date of this instrument, in the absence of other decisive evidence, is estimated to be somewhere around that time. There is a small plaque in the instrument referring to medals won by Imhof & Mukle in 1862 and 1865, although these awards were given for the construction of larger orchestrions and do not relate to this instrument. This organ was reportedly sold at an Imhof & Mukle branch in Bond Street, London, and later resided in Bangor, Northern Ireland, at Villa Thalassa - a grand peach-colored building that no longer exists. In the 1950s, the organ was purchased by Eleanor and Tom Greeves (London). In 1999 it was donated to Museum Speelklok by Eleanor Greeves.
Daniel Imhof & Leopold Mukle began working together as such in 1855; the date of this instrument, in the absence of other decisive evidence, is estimated to be somewhere around that time. There is a small plaque in the instrument referring to medals won by Imhof & Mukle in 1862 and 1865, although these awards were given for the construction of larger orchestrions and do not relate to this instrument. This organ was reportedly sold at an Imhof & Mukle branch in Bond Street, London, and later resided in Bangor, Northern Ireland, at Villa Thalassa - a grand peach-colored building that no longer exists. In the 1950s, the organ was purchased by Eleanor and Tom Greeves (London). In 1999 it was donated to Museum Speelklok by Eleanor Greeves.
Dimensions
geheel height: 237 cm
geheel width: 125 cm
geheel depth: 57 cm
cilinder length: 100 cm
cilinder diameter: 12 cm
geheel width: 125 cm
geheel depth: 57 cm
cilinder length: 100 cm
cilinder diameter: 12 cm