Hey, how lovely ! This little thing was playing beautifully on the Saturday evening when I visited. Doesn't the bass sound good & strong. I too was lucky enough to choose some books to put through the key frame. I chuckled to myself when I read Comedian Capers on one of the books which you correctly list as Canadian Capers. I was particularly thrilled to see the new crankshaft I machined from solid bar several years ago, working & driving the feeder bellows. My favourite book played here has to be The Blackbirds ( 9.59) Thanks for posting !
Thanks very much! It's a very strong sounding 87, more than most! perhaps. Great that you helped get the organ back on bellows, it just wouldn't be the same on a blower - I was very pleasantly surprised to see the bellows in the back.
2:41 Push the Little Button. (Carl Frei arrangement) 4:58 Unknown Title , all it says on the book is "Foxtrot", the cover is missing. 9:59 The Blackbirds. (Two Damare Polkas made into one tune)
Love this organ. Saw it near Haywards Heath in East Sussex when I lived at Wadhurst back in the late nineties. Interesting book of ‘Le Merle Blanc’ (The White blackbird) it seemed to have been mixed with another polka that I didn’t recognise. Very enjoyable though. This organ has a very fast action and can cope with presto passages very well. As always thanks for posting .
Thank you! Glad you are enjoying the videos - it was great to finally see this organ after having seen so many videos of it, I was very impressed. The second piece in the polka seems to be "La Tourterelle" (The Turtle dove) by Eugene Damaré.
@@MechanicalMusicTravels Hi, thanks for that. That other polka isn’t La Tourterelle, I play both those pieces by Damaré on the piano (they’re actually flute pieces ) but go well on the piano, and of course on fair organs!
@@glennadams3395 Sorry, my mistake - it was Le Merle Blanc! I've heard La Tourterelle on so many organs before that I was getting my Damaré pieces mixed up lol.
@@MechanicalMusicTravels An easy mistake they are similar pieces. Dunsfords Gavioli plays ‘La Touterelle’ very well. Look forward to you featuring that organ perhaps one day. 😉
This is a really nice Gavioli it looks and sounds very good as well! I think the figure that is on the organ looks to be a bell ringer at one point I can tell the positioning of the hands I bet it hasn't worked in a long time but it does look nice as a static figure.
The original figures this organ once had were removed by George Milligan (one of the previous owners of this organ) and were placed on another organ he owned, namely an 89 key Chiappa. I'm not sure where the current figure came from but I don't think it's ever moved!
@@MechanicalMusicTravels Interesting fact I never knew that. Since I like organs with some figures on I do also like some without them on too I describe them as a true work of art to look at.
It's actually a different polka - but judging by the style it's probably another piece composed by Damaré, the second half of the piece is more or less identical to "La Tourterelle". The book was rather unhelpfully titled "Piccolo Solo"!
@@MechanicalMusicTravelsI wonder if the first part is the piccolo polka. Although I’ve often heard La Touterelle’ wrongly labelled as ‘piccolo polka’ on records. The vast part of the book is definitely ‘Le Merle Blanc’ but it would be interesting to know what the other one is. It sounds like a Damaré composition. The New Colonial March that follows is a very good rendition
Great recording as always! And i just wanted to ask if there is an arrangement of Dvorak's Humoresque for a Gavioli? And if so, do you have it recorded on your channel?
Hey, how lovely ! This little thing was playing beautifully on the Saturday evening when I visited. Doesn't the bass sound good & strong. I too was lucky enough to choose some books to put through the key frame. I chuckled to myself when I read Comedian Capers on one of the books which you correctly list as Canadian Capers. I was particularly thrilled to see the new crankshaft I machined from solid bar several years ago, working & driving the feeder bellows. My favourite book played here has to be The Blackbirds ( 9.59) Thanks for posting !
Thanks very much! It's a very strong sounding 87, more than most! perhaps. Great that you helped get the organ back on bellows, it just wouldn't be the same on a blower - I was very pleasantly surprised to see the bellows in the back.
9:59 Le Merle Blanc
2:41 Push the Little Button. (Carl Frei arrangement)
4:58 Unknown Title , all it says on the book is "Foxtrot", the cover is missing.
9:59 The Blackbirds. (Two Damare Polkas made into one tune)
Thanks a lot Peter.
Love this organ. Saw it near Haywards Heath in East Sussex when I lived at Wadhurst back in the late nineties. Interesting book of ‘Le Merle Blanc’ (The White blackbird) it seemed to have been mixed with another polka that I didn’t recognise. Very enjoyable though. This organ has a very fast action and can cope with presto passages very well. As always thanks for posting .
Thank you! Glad you are enjoying the videos - it was great to finally see this organ after having seen so many videos of it, I was very impressed. The second piece in the polka seems to be "La Tourterelle" (The Turtle dove) by Eugene Damaré.
@@MechanicalMusicTravels Hi, thanks for that. That other polka isn’t La Tourterelle, I play both those pieces by Damaré on the piano (they’re actually flute pieces ) but go well on the piano, and of course on fair organs!
@@glennadams3395 Sorry, my mistake - it was Le Merle Blanc! I've heard La Tourterelle on so many organs before that I was getting my Damaré pieces mixed up lol.
@@MechanicalMusicTravels An easy mistake they are similar pieces. Dunsfords Gavioli plays ‘La Touterelle’ very well. Look forward to you featuring that organ perhaps one day. 😉
This is a really nice Gavioli it looks and sounds very good as well! I think the figure that is on the organ looks to be a bell ringer at one point I can tell the positioning of the hands I bet it hasn't worked in a long time but it does look nice as a static figure.
The original figures this organ once had were removed by George Milligan (one of the previous owners of this organ) and were placed on another organ he owned, namely an 89 key Chiappa. I'm not sure where the current figure came from but I don't think it's ever moved!
@@MechanicalMusicTravels Interesting fact I never knew that.
Since I like organs with some figures on I do also like some without them on too I describe them as a true work of art to look at.
@@HarryYT22 Indeed, on many organs the paintwork and paintings are just as good works of art as the figures themselves!
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9.59- Le Merle Blanc
It's actually a different polka - but judging by the style it's probably another piece composed by Damaré, the second half of the piece is more or less identical to "La Tourterelle". The book was rather unhelpfully titled "Piccolo Solo"!
@@MechanicalMusicTravelsI wonder if the first part is the piccolo polka. Although I’ve often heard La Touterelle’ wrongly labelled as ‘piccolo polka’ on records. The vast part of the book is definitely ‘Le Merle Blanc’ but it would be interesting to know what the other one is. It sounds like a Damaré composition. The New Colonial March that follows is a very good rendition
Great recording as always! And i just wanted to ask if there is an arrangement of Dvorak's Humoresque for a Gavioli? And if so, do you have it recorded on your channel?
Thanks! Unfortunately I don't think anyone had arranged that piece for 87/89 yet, but I could be wrong.
It sounded awful when George Milligan owned it,I recall it being one of the last gavioli organs being operated by a pinned barrel at one time.
Unfortunately there are only 1 or 2 surviving Gavioli barrel organs that sort of size.