In 020109 MMDigest, Francoise Dussour asked about a 19th century organ
and piano maker in Italy.

The spelling of the firm is Vosgien, Lucio or Luigi, and city's name
is Novara.  I have checked the map of Novara, and no road results with
that name; maybe it has been renamed, or you misspelled it.

Vosgien was one of the oldest firms building automatic pianos with
industrial methods in Italy, and was associated with Colombo, a piano
builder; I have no exact dating.  Anyway, they produced pianos for some
tens of years, until they closed their activities in the 1920s or '30s.

The kind of piano you mention is called "piano a sedia" (chair-shaped
piano) or "spallone" in Italy.  It is rather unusual in the production
of Vosgien-Colombo, as they are known to have produced almost
exclusively dance-hall pianos; but the history of Italian mechanical
music is still to be written, and many details are still unknown.

Best regards
Leonardo Perretti