828 Gavioli Concert Symphonique Fair Organ 1902

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828 Gavioli Concert Symphonique Fair Organ 1902
828 Gavioli Concert Symphonique Fair Organ 1902

1902 Gavioli Concert Symphonique Fair Organ

Gavioli & Cie were a Franco–Italian organ builder company that manufactured fairground organs in both Italy and later France founded in 1806 in Cavezzo, Italy. development of automatic playing musical instruments like bird organs and flute clocks. In 1818, he moved to Modena, he was joined in the business by his son Ludovico who added his own inventions and during this period built the "Panharmonico" for the Duke of Modena and designed and build the Modena's Palazzo comunale, the city hall. In 1845 Ludovico moved the business to the trade capital of the organ trade, Paris, France. From 1858 on he started his own organ building company in the Rue d'Aligre. Ludovico had three sons: Anselme, Henry and Claude all of whom joined the business, Anselme went on to invent the frein, a piece of metal that allowed pipes to produce a sound similar to a cello or violin and in 1892 he patented the use of book music to play organs which extended the length of music which could be played and increased the number of tunes the organ could play. Book music us a series of zig-zag folded sheets of cardboard in a folded book, which allowed mechanical arms to "feel" the holes and hence open the valves to allow compressed air to play the pipes of the organ The development marked a turning point in the history of the mechanical organ, by allowing music to be almost infinitely long, and allowed Gavioli to become the most famous and prolific fair organ builders.

The Gavioli family had branches in cities such as London, Manchester, New York City and Waldkirch

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