For MORTIER dance organ lovers,
for afficionados, it's a great pleasure. Music
arrangers Richard Legardeur and Michel
Amirault note the works from Camille Saint Saëns and
Johann Strauss, even Charles Trenet, putting on show the
concert possibilities of the instrument. You can
enjoy it at the Caf'Conc' "les Orgues
de Roubaix", in the tradition of the flemish
Fair. "The
Giant to the Bell"
This CD is the Specialremembrance
from the LUDION 's 20th "birthday"
celebration, held on October 1996. Several
performers: Marie Thérèse François, Michelle Dalibot, Sylviane
Blanquart et Maurice Maillet,
were playing severals grind organs : Baby, Baladin and
Maestro. 68
minutes of entertainment.
"Le
Ludion, 20 ans d'Amour et de passion"
Special
tour among the "Barrios of Buenos Aires", in the
good old past time, guided by the marvellous voice of Haydée
Alba, lady from Argentina, who sings antique
tangos and milongas, on special arrangements
played on one of our barrel organs: Baladin. "Tempos
Viejos".
"Ces instruments mécaniques n'ont rien de commun
avec les autres instruments congénères comme les Aristons,
Symphonion, etc... Les Pianos Mélodieux ont une voix aussi
forte qu'un bon bon piano, et la note tenue comme les
harmoniums. Avec ces instruments, on peut obtenir les plus
délicates nuances d'expression". From an old
add of the turn of the 19th century, these sentences gives
us the feeling of the last opus from Dorothea Walther.
La Serinette du Musée Auguste
Grasset de Varzy
Among the instruments shown in "le salon de Musique du
Musée Auguste Grasset de Varzy" you can hear a small
cylinder bird organ from Gavot Fils in Mirecourt (Vosges
area) dated of March,28 1763. Birds organs appeared in
France circa 1740. They were used to teach music to the
"serins" birds from "isles
Canaries". This instrument have two rank of tin pipes
one open and one stopped. It was restored by french
specialist Bernard Pin. It plays ten tunes on a cylinder
with brass pins in it....... Special price€.
6,10 + port
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This CD is the Special remembrance
from the LUDION 's 20th "birthday"
celebration, held on October 1996. Several
performers: Marie Thérèse François, Michelle Dalibot, 
Special
tour among the "Barrios of Buenos Aires", in the
good old past time, guided by the marvellous voice of Haydée
Alba, lady from Argentina, who sings antique
tangos and milongas, on special arrangements
played on one of our barrel organs: Baladin.
"Ces instruments mécaniques n'ont rien de commun
avec les autres instruments congénères comme les Aristons,
Symphonion, etc... Les Pianos Mélodieux ont une voix aussi
forte qu'un bon bon piano, et la note tenue comme les
harmoniums. Avec ces instruments, on peut obtenir les plus
délicates nuances d'expression". From an old
add of the turn of the 19th century, these sentences gives
us the feeling of the last opus from Dorothea Walther.
La Serinette du Musée Auguste
Grasset de Varzy 
