Arburo Orchestrion

[Sessoltani]

88 key?

[figamarsa]

Qual'è il titolo della musica?

What is the title of this music?

[pianoman1984]

I'd like to know the same, but I have no idea

[musicmachinesuk]

When I went to 'Van Speelklok tot Pierement' museum on I was on holiday with my nan & grandad in Holland the tour guide who was doing the tour played the Arburo Orchestrion. I think its one finest I've heard play.

Ben

[HMGRosser]

@musicmachinesuk You are welcome :P

[ChristainPatriot01]

Would companies that produce automatic instruments commonly merger? I ask this because I would see the name of two companies on instruments like this, and Street Organ "De Klok"[the one GavioliTom posted] because it had the name Warnies and Mohlman on it.

[pianoman1984]

I think (but not sure, I don't know much about organ) that Warnies was the company that had the organ to rent, and Mohlman was the builder, or perhaps the family renting the organ from the Warnies company..... just speculations, not sure about any of it. if somebody knows it, please react.

[Thijsie92]

De Klok is a Mortier street organ. Henk Möhlmann rented the organ from Warnies.

[ChristainPatriot01]

I see,thanks.

[bdogolddave]

Very good video of a very good arburo. More Please

[pianoman1984]

I don't visit the museum very often, and then the Arburo isn't in the regular tour... so might take a while...

[StuartMulcrow]

Definately the finest ARthur BURsens Orchestrions i've ever heard, plays to perfection.

[pianoman1984]

ARBURO doesn't stand for Arthur Bursens Orchestrions. It stands for ARthur BUrsens & ROels, In 1928 Arthur Bursens and Gustaaf Roels took over the Bursens company from Joseph Bursens and started to make orchestrions as well as the organs.

[HenrikRagnarsson]

Shiet! Haha, it's like a synth! xD

[octave4]

Nice restoration work, Really interesting sound. These must be preserved as part of the organbuilders art.

[Yaledmot]

That is a great demonstrating of the warbling Lotus Flute gliding about the solo line. Great sound. Have heard similar sounds on some Burnsens instruments. Do you have more such recordings?

[pianoman1984]

Hi, I don;t have any other recordings at the time, I have them om DVtape, but I don't have a camera to upload them to my PC

ArBuRo is actually Arthur Bursens Roels

[Yaledmot]

There was, until the restuarant burned, a wonderful Bursens organ in the east SF Bay Area. Thankfully the instrument survived the fire and was sent to storage. It was great fun to hear the machine with its Lotus Flute

warbling about.

[pianoman1984]

story told in the museum is that the 'vox humana' register made sailors in an antwerp café(where the instrument originally stood) think there was a real woman inside and they would continuously try to open the instrument.... they probably were very very drunk.

[bigcity233]

Facinating machines. Thanks for posting. Pneumatic player systems were found in so many more instruments than the common 88 note player.

[coolowl2006]

Great to see little-known machines - there's no Arburo's in Australia that I know of. Thanks! :-)