For sale: barrel piano built by J. Lacape of Paris, a prominent
19th-century French inventor who patented advanced automatic and
mechanical piano systems starting around 1859.

This single-pedal barrel instrument was patented in 1882 and has two
barrels, each with 7 tunes by Leopold Gangloff, a popular composer
in France, who composed more than 600 piano pieces between 1880 and
1890. One of the barrels bears his signature. The barrel is rotated
mechanically from a flywheel driven by the foot pedal.

From the former Revelstoke Nickelodeon Museum collection. For sale,
any offer considered. Located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia,
Canada.

David Evans
Vancouver Island
mechmusicmuseum@aol.com.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply]

Attachments:

[ Article about Leopold Gangloff, composer of the music on the Lacape barrel piano.
[ https://www.mmdigest.com/Attachments/26/09/02/260902_170621_Mechanical_Music_World_article_from_Issue_11.doc 

[ Article from The Music Box, winter 2006, about the Lacape barrel piano
[ https://www.mmdigest.com/Attachments/26/09/02/260902_170621_Music_Box_Article.pdf 

[ Front of our Lacape piano.
[ https://www.mmdigest.com/Attachments/26/09/02/260902_170621_Lacape_piano0002.tif