GAVIOLI GIRL

Fairground organs were designed to produce a large volume of sound to be heard over and above the noise of crowds of people and fairground machinery. Carved wood and hand painted figures were a part of many organ facades and this image shows a Gavioli organ. . .

The Gavioli Company was founded by Giacomo Gavioli in 1806 in Modena, Italy. The musical tunes came from a series of zig-zag folded sheets of cardboard in a folded book. Mechanical arms detected the holes and opened valves to enable compressed air to play the pipes of the organ.

Have a grand weekend.