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Item Ships From: United Kingdom
Gothic revival dinner gong
Located in Cheshire, GB
Gothic revival dinner gong, in the style of Bruce Talbert. With an oak frame, brass gong, together with beater.
Dimensions
Height 39 Inches
Width 21 Inches
Depth 11.5 Inches
Category
Early 20th Century British United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Oak
$2,142 Sale Price
20% Off
Oak framed dinner gong
Located in Cheshire, GB
Oak-framed floor-standing diner gong and beater, the carved crest flanked by turned finials raised on carved pillars and turned stretcher below. Raised on scrolling legs.
Dimensions
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Category
Late 19th Century British Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Oak
$3,001
Antique Buffet-Style Drum and Bell Music Box by Mojon Manger, Geneva, c. 1885
Located in London, GB
A large and fantastic-sounding buffet-style upright antique music box made by Mojon Manger of Geneva, Switzerland, c. 1885.
The movement features six sau...
Category
1880s Swiss Late Victorian Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Brass, Stainless Steel
Arts and Crafts Ibach Grand Piano Mahogany Designed by Dutch Architect Cuypers
Located in Leeds, GB
A 1916, German Arts and Crafts, Ibach grand piano with a mahogany case and carved panel detail. The mahogany cabinet is polished so as to emphas...
Category
Early 20th Century German Arts and Crafts United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Brass
Carved oak framed dinner gong
Located in Cheshire, GB
Late 19th century dinner gong, the circular gong suspended in an oak frame of naturalistic branch design with vacant cartouche surmounting between conforming uprights and downswept s...
Category
Late 19th Century British Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Oak
good antique gilt bronze singing bird box, by Flajoulot
Located in London, GB
A good antique gilt bronze singing bird box, by Flajoulot,
Circa 1910,
Going barrel movement,
Typical Flajoulet, clever design...
When wound and start/stop button sli...
Category
1910s French Vintage United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Bronze
Arts and Crafts Walnut Dinner Gong This is a large hall piece the Brass Gong
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Arts and Crafts Walnut Dinner Gong
This is a large hall piece the Brass Gong is hand beaten brass suspended in a beautiful walnut frame, with turnings decorating the top rail, it ...
Category
19th Century Arts and Crafts Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Brass
Victorian Oak Cased Set of Five Gongs
Located in London, GB
A Victorian oak cased set of five gongs, with beater.
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Brass
$528 Sale Price
20% Off
Beuloff Baby Grand Piano Cabriole Legs Hand-Painted Classical Motifs Gilt Accent
Located in Leeds, GB
Beuloff baby grand piano with a cream case. Entire cabinet hand-painted with Classical style motifs. It is signed on the cabinet by Jade 85 Wigmore Street.
The cabriole legs with a scalloped top, are hand-painted with flowers and foliage and gilt accents
The traditionally shaped two-pedal piano lyre features two S-curves bordered with gilt accents.
The music desk...
Category
Early 20th Century German United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Brass
Oak and cattle horn dinner gong
Located in Cheshire, GB
19th-century table-top dinner gong, the brass disc gong suspended from two cattle horns on an oak base, with a hammer.
Dimensions
Height 16.5 Inches
Width 13.5 Inches
Depth 7 Inches
Category
Early 20th Century British United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Oak
$1,421 Sale Price
20% Off
Handsome Military Snare Drum from Sevenoaks Air Training Corps
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Handsome military snare drum from sevenoaks air training corps.
This a good decorative piece ‘2158 SEVENOAKS SQDn’ AIR TRAINING CORPS’ painted on the f...
Category
Late 20th Century British Colonial United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Plastic
Aesthetic silver plated table gong
Located in Cheshire, GB
Aesthetic silver plated table gong, the well cast frame supporting the tooled gong, retaining the original beater.
Dimensions
Height 9.5 Inches
...
Category
Early 20th Century British United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Silver Plate
$1,151 Sale Price
20% Off
A stunning Hexagonal shaped, gilt bronze and Sevres Singing Cage by Bontems
Located in London, GB
A stunning and very fine Hexagonal gilt bronze and Sevres plaque single singing bird-in-cage, by Bontems,
Going-barrel movement,
When wound with the key and start/stop lever actuated, the large and perfectly perched red thrush begins to sing his chorus, moving naturalistic beak, tailfeather and head from side-to-side to continuous birdsong.
One of the most sought after and most looked forward to models ever made by Bontems, this example is offered in pristine original condition. Hexagonal shaped, which is one of the rarer models you'll be lucky to come across, with 8 seperate porcelain plaques depicting lovers alternating with song birds within tooled gilt and bleu céleste borders
Gilt bronze singing bird cages, usually with stained glass, or fine porcelain panel inserts, were made in limited numbers during the 19th century to commission orders. The first maker to offer a bird cage to this design was Jacquet Droz in about 1798 with his large singing bird in cage, fusee-driven with a clock to the underside so when hung up, its use was three-dimensional.
Bontems created this with the past in mind and was no doubt the only maker...
Category
1880s Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Bronze
Set of two Copper and brass coaching horns
Located in Cheshire, GB
Set of two Copper coaching horns having brass banding and well-cast mouthpieces.
Dimensions
Height 5 Inches
Width 50 Inches
Depth 5 Inches
Category
Late 19th Century British Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Copper
$1,454 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Antique coin-operated large double singing birds-in-cage, by Bontems
Located in London, GB
An antique coin-operated large double singing birds-in-cage, by Bontems,
French
circa 1900
Spend a penny in style
When wound and a 1d. coin inse...
Category
1810s French Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Gesso
Georg Fortner Upright Piano Mahogany High Relief Carvings by Julius Bechler
Located in Leeds, GB
Antique, Georg Fortner upright piano for sale with an ornately carved, mahogany case and ornate candlesticks. Entire cabinet features carved flowers, foliage, musical instruments and grotesque heads on each piano cheek.
This upright piano was made to order by the german piano manufacturer Georg Fortner in Munich. The extravagant cabinet carvings were created by the famous wood sculpter, Julius Bechler, who ordered the piano for his private home in the the town Achensee in Austria. Julius Bechler was an appointed wood artist for King Ludwig II...
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Mahogany
Late 19th century oak dinner gong
Located in Cheshire, GB
19th Century oak dinner gong and beater. The arched top has carved decoration above the barley twist supports. Having suspended brass gong to centre. All raised on scrolling legs.
Di...
Category
Late 19th Century British Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Oak
$2,032 Sale Price
20% Off
Rebuilt Steinway Model M Grand Piano Gloss Black Cabinet Spade Legs
Located in Leeds, GB
Rebuilt, 1932, Steinway Model M grand piano with a black case and spade legs. Piano has an eighty-eight note keyboard and a two-pedal lyre.
Piano li...
Category
Mid-20th Century German United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Brass
1950
s Style Zimmermann Baby Grand Piano Yellow Formica Tubular Steel Piano Lyre
Located in Leeds, GB
A 1950s style, Zimmermann baby grand piano with a contrasting black and yellow formica case. Piano features an asymmetrical music desk with geometric cut-ou...
Category
Mid-20th Century German United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Steel
Art Deco Barker Upright Piano Chrome Mahogany Geometric Case Styling
Located in Leeds, GB
A 1930's Barker upright piano with an Art Deco style mahogany case. Cabinet features strong angular styling, evident in the chamfered corners at the top and b...
Category
Early 20th Century English Art Deco United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Chrome
Antique Marquetry Wood Music Box by Langdorff
Fils
Located in London, GB
Antique marquetry wood music box by Langdorff & Fils
Swiss, Late 19th Century
Height 31cm, width 68cm, depth 35cm
Crafted in the late 19th century, this exquisite music box was pro...
Category
Late 19th Century Swiss Belle Époque Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Metal
Pleyel Grand Piano Hand-Painted Berainesque Style Cabriole Leg Signed G. Meunier
Located in Leeds, GB
This 1893, Pleyel grand piano sits on ornately carved french walnut frame, carved with foliage and flowers. The piano has six carved, cabriole legs ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Walnut, Paint
Adams Style Bluthner Grand Piano Quarter Cut Satinwood Inlaid Swags and Bows
Located in Leeds, GB
Adams style, 1911, Bluthner grand piano with a french polished, quarter cut, satinwood case with boxwood stringing inlay and crossbanding accents. The satinwood veneer of the cabinet...
Category
Early 20th Century German Adam Style United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Brass
Pleyel Upright Piano Satinwood Neoclassical Inlay Fluted, Columnar Legs
Located in Leeds, GB
An 1893, Pleyel upright piano with a satinwood cabinet.
Entire cabinet features intricate, Neocalssical style inlay. The front panels feature a symmetri...
Category
1890s French Neoclassical Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Brass
Bates Pianoforte Circa 1825 Carved Baluster Leg 78 Note Fabric Panel
Located in Leeds, GB
Circa 1825, Bates pianoforte. Name plaque in a calligraphy font, sits above the keyboard surrounded by wooden beading. The tall cabinet features a rectangular, cut-out front panel that acts as a sound...
Category
1820s English Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Fabric, Wood
Grotrian Steinweg Model 110 Upright Piano Mid Century Modern Walnut Fabric Panel
Located in Leeds, GB
Grotrian-Steinweg model 110 upright piano with a walnut case and fabric panels.
Cabinet typical of Mid-Century Modern style. Cabinet design focuses on simple, clean lines and curves.
The front panels are stepped in construction with rounded curved corners.
The golden, Jacquard fabric panels are in a design of diagonal intersecting lines, accentuate the sound box quality of the cabinet.
The simple tapered legs are sabre cut in walnut.
Square piano...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Brass
Steinway Model A Grand Piano in Statement Tiger Mahogany
Located in Leeds, GB
A 1975, Steinway Model A grand piano with a tiger mahogany case and gloss finish. This stunning wood grain is book-matched across the beveled, piano lid and piano cabinet. The music ...
Category
1970s German Vintage United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Mahogany
19th Century Bronze Alpine Front Door Bell This is a delightful item
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
19th Century Bronze Alpine Front Door Bell
This is a delightful item, the bronze bell is housed in a wrought iron frame, it is suspended on a rocking bracket and rung by pulling th...
Category
Early 1900s Arts and Crafts Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Bronze
Mid-Century Modern Monington and Weston Piano in Mahogany and Macassar Ebony
Located in Leeds, GB
Mid-Century Modern style, 1956, Monington and Weston upright piano. Cabinet made from a contrasting mahogany and macassar ebony case. Piano exempl...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Macassar, Mahogany
Chinese Chippendale Style Schiedmayer Piano Oriental Scenes Embossed Japanning
Located in Leeds, GB
Chinese Chippendale style, 1899, Schiedmayer grand piano with a flame mahogany case and Malborough legs with applied fret carvings. Cabinet features oriental scenes in embossed Japan...
Category
Late 19th Century German Chinese Chippendale Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Wood, Mahogany
Old Brass British Military Issue Brass Handbell A Great Piece, Second World War
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Old Brass British Military Issue Brass Handbell
A Great Piece, Second World War, dated 1942, marked A.S.1942, and with the broad arrow insignia denotin...
Category
1940s British Colonial Vintage United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Brass
20th Century British Royal Air Force Flying Training School Hand Painted Drum
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
A well preserved 20th Century hand painted drum from the band of the flying training school of the Royal Air Force. Complete with the infamous motto "Per Ardua ad Astra" - through di...
Category
1970s British Other Vintage United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Wood
German Late Renaissance Pfaffe Piano Carved Mock Roll Top Fall Barley Twist Legs
Located in Leeds, GB
German late Renaissance style, 1896, Julius Pfaffe upright piano for sale with a walnut case and burr walnut panels. Cabinet features a front openwork panel of turned spindles that acts as a sound box...
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Brass
Victorian Decorative Iron Courtesy Counter Top Bell, Reception Desk Bell
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Victorian Decorative Iron Courtesy Counter Top Bell, Reception Desk Bell
Made and cast in iron, in good condition and ready to use with a demanding ding, the bell is 6” in diameter ...
Category
19th Century Arts and Crafts Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Iron
Automaton Singing Birds
Located in Norwich, GB
Automaton Singing birds
Automaton singing birds housed in a gilded case standing on a stepped gilded base.
Three articulated singing bird...
Category
1950s British Vintage United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Brass
$4,819
Old Bronze Hand Bell, Town Cryer’s or School Bell
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Old Bronze Hand Bell, Town Cryer’s or School Bell
A Great piece, the bell is made in solid bronze and has a beautiful lignum vitae turned handle and ...
Category
19th Century Victorian Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Bronze
Charles Bruguier singing bird box, fusee movement, silver gilt and enamel
Located in London, GB
Fine Bruguier fusee singing bird box in silver gilt and enamel. The box with movement and box signed and numbered Ch. Bruguier a Geneve 165. Fine quality, shaped case with enamel is ...
Category
1830s Swiss Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Late 19thC Brass Table Top Gong
By William Suckling Ltd.
Located in Altrincham, GB
Late 19thC Brass Table Top Gong with beater - William Suckling Birmingham, "Burmese Collection " c1895 - 12"w x 5"d x 13"h
Category
Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Brass
Pharmacy Child Measure Stand, Pitch Pine Measuring Stick or Somastometre
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Pharmacy Child Measure Stand, Pitch Pine Measuring Stick or Somastometre
Once these along with scales were common place in Doctors Surgeries, Chemist ...
Category
1890s Industrial Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Beech
Richard Strauss Ibach Cherry Gate Leg Grand Piano by Emanuel Von Seidl
Located in Leeds, GB
Restored, 1907 Ibach Model 2 grand piano with a cherry case in a checkerboard design and inlaid, contrasting squares on the piano lid. Piano music desk is in an openwork dual criss-cross design. Piano has gate legs with four contrasting black spindles. Piano one of two designed for and offered to Richard Strauss by Ibach. Ibach made two pianos almost identical in this design except, the other #56279 had low, square piano cheeks. Richard Strauss chose that one as he intended the piano for his home where he hosted concerts and wanted his audience to be able to see his hands. This piano remained in the possession of Ibach and was used in exhibitions for promotional purposes. This piano was designed by Emanuel von Seidl, a German architect, interior designer and engineer. Between 1900 and 1918, Seidl was a successful villa architect and was known far beyond the borders of his hometown of Munich. Probably his most important private houses include that of Richard Strauss with its generously glazed bay window and view of the Alps, and the country estate Schloss Wolfsbrunn built for the mining entrepreneur Georg Wolf.
Category
Early 1900s German Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Metal
Nicole Frères. Mystique de Genève. A Wonderful Music Box with Six Calming Tunes.
By Nicole Frères
Located in London, GB
Nicole Frères. Mystique de Genève. A rare and wonderful music box which when wound will play six different wonderful calming and tranquil tunes. Set into...
Category
20th Century United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Rosewood
Secessionist, Bechstein Model VI Grand Piano with an Inlaid, Mahogany Case
Located in Leeds, GB
Secessionist 1902, Bechstein Model VI grand piano with an inlaid, mahogany case and statement copper hinges. Cabinet inspired by Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau periods. The polished...
Category
Early 20th Century German Arts and Crafts United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Copper
Brass and oak table gong
Located in Cheshire, GB
Brass and oak table gong supported by a scroll mount and flanked by Corinthian columns on an oak base and scroll feet.
Dimensions
Height 29.5 Inches
Width 25.5 Inches
Depth 10 Inches
Category
Early 20th Century British United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Oak
$1,845 Sale Price
20% Off
Søren Jensen Maple Grand Piano Caryatid Legs Hand-Painted by Gudmund Hentze
Located in Leeds, GB
A 1918, Søren Jensen model D butterfly grand piano with a polished, maple case. The gilt music desk is in an openwork, scrolling design featuring flowers, shells amd swags. Piano sits on three square, tapered legs with bronze female nude, caryatids adorning the top. The piano lyre features gilted, carved detail of foliage and berries. The pedals are in a spiral design. Carved, gilt, filgree panels featuring shells, foliage and scrolls adorn the piano cheeks.
Cabinet features hand-painted ovals by Danish artist Gudmund Hentze.
Oval 1 - A fair haired maiden, vested in blue with a golden belt holds a dagger aloft.
Oval 2 - A man flees a crowd of gnomes with a barrow filled with gold, urged on by a seated woman.
Oval 3 - A nurse snoozes next to a cot as a baby is stolen
Oval 4 - A seated maiden offers a scarlet clad man a golden cup...
Category
Early 20th Century Danish United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Metal
Asprey, Pair of Antique Silver Plate Music Stands, Made Circa 1910
By Asprey International Limited
Located in London, London
Made in London circa 1910 by Asprey & Co. Ltd., this stylish pair of Antique Silver Plate Music Stands, are plain in design. Each music stand measures 13.5"(34 cm) tall, by 13.5"(34 ...
Category
1910s English Edwardian Vintage United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Silver Plate
Ornately Carved Biese Hof Upright Piano Openwork Panels High Relief Griffin Legs
Located in Leeds, GB
Biese Hof upright piano with an oak case. Entire cabinet features ornately carved, openwork panels in high relief backed with gold fabric. The front panel features a cluster of music...
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Brass
Antique Buffet-Style 6 Bell Upright Music Box by Mojon Manger, c. 1880
Located in London, GB
An extremely good-sounding buffet-style upright antique cylinder music box made by Mojon Manger in Geneva, Switzerland c. 1880.
The fully...
Category
Late 19th Century Swiss Late Victorian Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Brass, Steel
Brass and Rattan Bell, attributed to Carl Aubock, Mid-Century, Austria
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in London, Fitzrovia
Brass and Rattan Bell attributed to Carl Aubock, Mid-Century, Austria.
beautiful object!
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Brass
Large oak dinner gong
Located in Cheshire, GB
Large oak dinner gong the arch top with lion mask head, and suspended ring, surrounded by carved scrolls and foliage, above two figures supporting the original brass gong. All raised...
Category
Late 19th Century British Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Oak
$3,183 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique English Polished Brass Counter / Desk Bell c.1890
Located in Bath, GB
A wonderful and highly decorative desk or counter bell, my favourite kind with the more unusual clapper to the side rather than the ones you ring from the top. The hinged clapper is ...
Category
1890s British Late Victorian Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Brass
Brinsmead Upright Piano with Crystoleum Panel of a Pre Raphaelite scene
Located in Leeds, GB
A 1905, Brinsmead upright piano with a polished, rosewood case and legs with stylised lion's feet. Two Art Nouveau style candlesticks adorn the cabinet side panels in a scrolling whi...
Category
Early 20th Century English United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Brass
Gothic revival dinner gong
Located in Cheshire, GB
Gothic revival dinner gong, in the style of Bruce Talbert. With an oak frame, brass gong, together with beater.
Dimensions
Height 41.5 Inches
Width 24.5 Inches
Depth 18.5 Inches
Category
Late 19th Century British Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Oak
Old Brass Hand Bell, Town Cryer’s or School Bell A Great piece
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Old Brass Hand Bell, Town Cryer’s or School Bell
A Great piece larger and heavier than most, the bell is made in solid brass and has a beautiful sycamore turned handle with a brass ...
Category
19th Century Victorian Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Brass
Mahogany framed dinner gong
Located in Cheshire, GB
A charming antique dinner gong presented on an elegant, turned mahogany stand. The circular hammered brass gong is suspended from a rope cord and produces a deep, resonant tone when ...
Category
Early 20th Century British United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Wood
Antique 20th Century Victorian Pair Of Cased Violins By Rushworth
Dreaper
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique pair of early 20th-century Victorian violins crafted by Rushworth and Dreaper of Liverpool. They are accompanied by their original velvet-lined case, complete with various ac...
Category
Early 1900s British Other Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Wood
Unusual Crystal Palace Band Competition Painted Glass Certificate of Merit 1883
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very unusual, possibly unique, historical Certificate of Merit awarded at the drum and pipe band contest held at Crystal Palace between 1880 and 1883 and awarded in 1883. The certificate is hand-painted on a rectangular sheet of milk glass and is painted as a hanging cloth banner...
Category
1880s English Victorian Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Milk Glass
Louis XVI Serinette in the Form of a Miniature Commode by Richard, Paris, 1775
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A very rare Louis XVI period serinette or bird organ in the form of a transitional style gilt bronze mounted and marquetry inlaid miniature commode in the manner of gilbert, by Robert Richard, Paris.
With a label for ' RICHARD - maitre facteur d’orgues et mécanicien / Rue de richelieu à la bibliothèque Du Roy / Paris 1775'.
This rare Serinette or Bird Organ has a wooden cylinder barrel mounted by twelve pins and linked to twelve sound pipes. A crank attached to the front panel controls the bellows that activates the mechanism.
The exceptional marquetry inlaid case is in the form of a gilt bronze mounted transitional style miniature commode. The top of the commode is inlaid with a landscape scene with buildings, opening to an interior with an allegory of Love Conquering All, represented by two doves perching on a bow and quiver. The front of the commode depicts two obelisks centred by a Fine musical trophy and each side is inlaid with panels depicting the Medici Vase. The back of the commode is decorated with floral marquetry.
A closely related Serinette dating from circa 1770, also in the form of a miniature commode, with the marquetry case stamped by the master marqueteur Leonard Boudin, is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
The term serinette is derived from serine, French for finch. The instrument worked like a small barrel organ with a barbed cylinder, wind box and lead pipes and produced a high, thin sound in imitation of birds. Other versions included a merline, which copied blackbirds and a turlutaine, which copied curlews. Used to teach caged birds to sing tunes, different barrels could be inserted to train different birds. It first appeared in France circa 1730 and became a popular drawing-room toy for fashionable women. An interesting painting commissioned in 1751 for Louis XV by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin and now in the collection of the Louvre, depicts a refined lady seated in her salon playing a bird organ to encourage her bird to sing.
Robert Richard
Robert Richard was a Parisian organ and harpsichord maker and the mécanicien du roi to Louis XV and Louis XVI and was based in the Bibliothèque du Roi in rue de Richelieu.
Initially working alongside the Cliquot family who acted as 'facteur d'orgue du Roi', he is recorded as building an organ for the church of Notre-Dame de Quebec, in Montreal in 1753 (destroyed in 1759) and as the inventor of a mechanical concert shown in an engraving by d'Eisen in 1769.
Canon Jean Marie De La Corne described Robert Richard as : ''Le plus habile ouvrier de paris, fameux mechanitien et Homme de probité''.
French, Dated 1775.
Literature:
Pierre Kjellberg, The French Furniture of the 17th century, The Editions of the Amateur, 2008
Count Francois de Salverte, Cabinetmakers of the 18th century, Editions of Art and History, 1934
Raymond Russell, Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue of Musical Instruments, Volume I - Keyboard Instruments,(London, 1968; p. 69.)
Elizabeth Miller...
Category
Mid-18th Century French Louis XVI Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Wood
Vintage Piano Accordion, German, Squeezebox, Meinel and Herold, Dix Reeds
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage piano accordion. A German, pearloid squeezebox by Meinel and Herold with Dix reeds and carry case, dating to the mid-20th century, ci...
Category
Mid-20th Century German United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Brass
Antique 19thC Swiss Made Cylinder Music Box By Lecoultre Frères Of Geneva c.1880
By LeCoultre
Cie 1
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique 19th Century Swiss music box crafted in the form of a desk table. It comes with six interchangeable cylindrical discs, each playing a different tune. The piece was made by Le...
Category
19th Century Swiss Other Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Brass
Antique Mounted School Bell, English, Bronze, Oak, Pine, Georgian, Circa 1800
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique mounted school bell. An English, bronze bell on oak and pine plinth, dating to the Georgian period, circa 1800.
Of superb proportion ...
Category
Late 18th Century British Antique United Kingdom Musical Instruments
Materials
Bronze
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