Mortier Cafe Organ

An 80-key Mortier cafe (or dance) organ made about 1950 in Antwerp, Belgium. This pipe organ plays via punched cardboard "books". It supplied popular dance music in Belgian and French restaurants and bars. A few of these organs can still be found today, but the jukebox and then the DJ has supplanted this mechanical music machine.

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• Mortier
• dance organ
• pipe organ
• mechanical music
• band organ

[mortier9]

Correct. The organ was brought to the USA in the 1980s from England and returned to the UK just this month.

[mortier9]

Being a late Mortier organ, it never had a bellows. The blower is original to the organ.

[petermackett37]

@ceredigio The organ is in East Anglia owned by Jeff Powell and his friend,it has been completely overhauled since they got it,i do not know the title of the tune,it's a recut of an old book.

[ceredigio]

@petermackett37 Where is it in this country now, is it in a collection? Judging by the book label, it was arranged by Andrew Pilmer. What is the tune called?

[ceredigio]

Judging by the front of the book the organ is playing, it was arranged by Andrew Pilmer. What is the tune called?

[petermackett37]

I believe this organ is now over here in England.

[AuntieGavioli]

love it....there's a Mortier Dance organ video on my chanell

[Hiddovanos]

I hear an exhauster, are the original bellows also available?