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Actions	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Image(s) TitleBook Operated Reed organ 'Coelophone Orchestre' Creator Jérôme Thibouville-Lamy PlaceParis (France) Year ca. 1890 Object number1147 Object categorymechanical resounding reed instruments Object namemechanical reed organ, reed instrument with book DescriptionAccompanying this book organ is an instruction booklet, which can be considered a kind of manual. This booklet explains that hand-turned instruments like this one were often criticised for being too delicate to transport over long distances and for being almost impossible to repair. We are assured that this is not the case with the Coelophone. The booklet explains the basic operation - how turning the lever activates the bellows, which send air into the wind chamber, which in turn is "pierced with a certain number of holes". Where the paper music carrier has no holes, no air goes from the wind chamber to the reeds - but where it does, the corresponding note sounds. After describing the mechanism (which the author says is "perfectly simple"), the reader is told that simple routine repairs and maintenance can easily be carried out. One is to ("carefully") thread a knitting needle through a hole in the side of the instrument to remove accumulated dust. Accompanying textsThe Coelophone played a variety of tunes whose titles are listed in the accompanying 'manual'. These include songs by Emil Waldteufel, Gaetano Donizetti, Jaques Offenbach, Richard Wagner, Louis Ganne, Gioachino Rossini, Georges Bizet, Hector Berlioz, Giuseppe Verdi, Charles Gounod, Pietro Mascagni and many other popular names of the time. The available booklets are grouped into several categories: mazurkas; Scottish melodies; galops; quadrilles; marches; overtures; national hymns and songs; opera melodies (by far the largest group); religious melodies; 'miscellaneous'; English melodies; Russian melodies; and Spanish melodies. The musical instrument firm Thibouville-Lamy originated in 1730, had great success in the 19th century, and still exists in the form of J. Thibouville-Lamy, makers of bows for stringed instruments. Dimensions geheel height: 50 cm geheel width: 84 cm geheel depth: 45 cm geheel met slinger depth: 51 cm geheel totaal width: 102 cm Keywordsprogrammadrager: cylinder klankbron resounding reeds aandrijving: muscle power

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TitleBook Operated Reed organ 'Coelophone Orchestre'

Creator Jérôme Thibouville-Lamy

PlaceParis (France)

Year ca. 1890

Object number1147

Object categorymechanical resounding reed instruments

Object namemechanical reed organ, reed instrument with book

DescriptionAccompanying this book organ is an instruction booklet, which can be considered a kind of manual. This booklet explains that hand-turned instruments like this one were often criticised for being too delicate to transport over long distances and for being almost impossible to repair. We are assured that this is not the case with the Coelophone. The booklet explains the basic operation - how turning the lever activates the bellows, which send air into the wind chamber, which in turn is "pierced with a certain number of holes". Where the paper music carrier has no holes, no air goes from the wind chamber to the reeds - but where it does, the corresponding note sounds. After describing the mechanism (which the author says is "perfectly simple"), the reader is told that simple routine repairs and maintenance can easily be carried out. One is to ("carefully") thread a knitting needle through a hole in the side of the instrument to remove accumulated dust.

Accompanying textsThe Coelophone played a variety of tunes whose titles are listed in the accompanying 'manual'. These include songs by Emil Waldteufel, Gaetano Donizetti, Jaques Offenbach, Richard Wagner, Louis Ganne, Gioachino Rossini, Georges Bizet, Hector Berlioz, Giuseppe Verdi, Charles Gounod, Pietro Mascagni and many other popular names of the time. The available booklets are grouped into several categories: mazurkas; Scottish melodies; galops; quadrilles; marches; overtures; national hymns and songs; opera melodies (by far the largest group); religious melodies; 'miscellaneous'; English melodies; Russian melodies; and Spanish melodies.

The musical instrument firm Thibouville-Lamy originated in 1730, had great success in the 19th century, and still exists in the form of J. Thibouville-Lamy, makers of bows for stringed instruments.

Dimensions

geheel height: 50 cm
geheel width: 84 cm
geheel depth: 45 cm
geheel met slinger depth: 51 cm
geheel totaal width: 102 cm

Keywordsprogrammadrager: cylinder
klankbron resounding reeds
aandrijving: muscle power

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