For sale: Davrainville chamber barrel organ.  The cabinet dimensions
are: height 163 cm, width 81 cm, depth 48 cm.  There are eight
barrels, all spirally pinned, each barrel measures 40 cm by 11.4 cm.
They are all stored in the bottom half of the cabinet.

The organ is powered by a large spring fusee movement.  Each barrel
plays for approximately five minutes.  The motor endplate is stamped
Davrainville Paris 1849.  The serial number is 875.  The organ has
a 32-note keyframe and is in original condition throughout and is in
full working order.  Barrel titles are as follows:

No 1. Overture Barber of Seville
No 2. Overture Semiramie
No 3. Overture The White Lady
No 4. Vi ravviso from the Sonnambula, Son vergin vezzosa from I puritani
No 5. La Marseillaise, E Scatto from the Sonnambula, Fermez la Paupiere
No 6. Cantalon, Sumner, Pastoral, Finale (Les Mousquetaires de la Reine)
No 7. The Soupier Suite of Valses
No 8. Marienka, Sarir, Soupier de Suite of Polka

Photographs can be provided and any further information.

Roy Ison
tel.: 01522 540406
email: randm@bight.demon.co.uk.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply]