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Manufacturer / Exporter / Supplier Of synthesizer, Stage Outfit, Bacigalupo Barrel Organ, Grand Piano, harpsichord, Hurdy Gurdy instruments, Fiddle, Aeolian Piano, Guitar, Bonafinis Virginal Piano
Manufacturer / Exporter / Supplier Of synthesizer, Stage Outfit, Bacigalupo Barrel Organ, Grand Piano, harpsichord, Hurdy Gurdy instruments, Fiddle, Aeolian Piano, Guitar, Bonafinis Virginal Piano
At a time when most popular music was performed in concert halls by professional musicians, the portable, self-playing barrel organ gave people the opportunity to listen to music and—for those without training—to play it. The Italian organ builder Giovanni Bacigalupo, who immigrated to Germany in 1873, manufactured this particular organ sometime around 1880 in Berlin. His family continued to produce such instruments in their Prenzlauer Berg factory for over a century, closing it in 1977.
This instrument was formerly owned by the great Canadian fiddler Al Cherny. Born in Medicine Hat, Alberta, in 1932, Cherny gained a reputation for being a talented and flashy fiddler—often playing with the instrument held behind his back or under his leg. In the 1950s he relocated to Ontario to perform with CKNX’s Barn Dance radio show and eventually made it to CBC’s The Tommy Hunter Show, where he became a regular, bringing his upbeat style, infused with a dash of Ukrainian folk, to a national audience.
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