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Manivelle Reed Organ Plays Punched Book Music
By Mike Roseboom

In response to Dug North's post: It sounds like the instrument that
was being played was either an Organina Thibouville or a Coelophone
Orchestre.  Bowers' "Encyclopedia" describes these instruments on
page 750.  They were sold by the firm of Thibouville-Lamy, although
the Coelophone was actually invented by Claude Gavioli, of the Gavioli
Company of Paris.  The Organina plays 24 reeds, while the Coelophone
plays 37 reeds.  I found this video of a Coelophone on Youtube:

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI2rEkQW5uk 

There is another instrument-also of Thibouville-Lamy-which is known as
the Organophone Expressif.  A video of one of these can be seen at

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQkq1lBzvcE 

Hope this helps.

Mike Roseboom
Binghamton, New York


(Message sent Mon 20 Apr 2009, 17:26:43 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

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