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Marenghi Showman's Organ
This Marenghi Showman's Engine started it's life in Paris in 1905, where it graced a dance hall. The riotously coloured front, with its exoctic ladies, glinting organ pipes, guarded by golden winged lions and, above, rearing stallions drawing the chariot of a skimpily-clad Parisienne, compliments a 98-key organ of unusual character and probably unique components.
The organ arrived at the Thursford Collection in Norfolk from Belfast, Ireland in 1959.
Marenghi Showman's Organ
This Marenghi Showman's Engine started it's life in Paris in 1905, where it graced a dance hall. The riotously coloured front, with its exoctic ladies, glinting organ pipes, guarded by golden winged lions and, above, rearing stallions drawing the chariot of a skimpily-clad Parisienne, compliments a 98-key organ of unusual character and probably unique components.
The organ arrived at the Thursford Collection in Norfolk from Belfast, Ireland in 1959.