A very nice street organ. Looking forward to hearing it again soon, hopefully at an upcoming Hollycombe event.

hallo. was this the organ wich was standing in roosendaal in holland. in the cafe from piet en corrie. greetings

Thank you Lucas, great content as usual!

Was this facade later used on the 121 key Gebr Decap Century? as it is very similar to the one that was on century before it was rebuilt with the present facade. Was the DIAMANT later rebuilt as a 105 key semi electronic by Verbeeck as several Lps were made of the Diamant after the Verbeeck rebuild during which it was reduced in size to that of a regular 105 semi Electronic hence the original facade ending up on De Century.

Oh, wonderful. There is absolutely no mistaking that sound for another machine. I remember first hearing it on an album played by a friend through his 600 watt valve amp. He made a cassette for me which has long since worn out. Thank you for sharing.

It's actually a 97 key organ, i have seen it at the Ferme des Orgues, no accordions or saxophones now, the end panels are no longer with it either, stands up on a balcony now but was on the floor of the museum when i saw it, the arrangements here are by Arthur Prinsen but i only saw Verbeeck books with it now.

I see from the comments that some think it is "out of tune". The only track that doesn't sound right to me is Clair. I wonder if the organ book was either worn or if a few of the notes had been "miscut".

Do the large pipes in the centre and the metal ones behind the accordions actually play or are they just dummies?, i wonder what the extra key does as most of these organs are 105 key.

Nice to see and hear this organ again . The last time I saw this was at the final Knowl Hill steam rally when it was still in the Gallopers .

Thanks for this. Haven't seen or heard this organ live for many years.

Vernice

Arrangers - 1,2,7,9,10,13 - Louis Blache for Chiappa Ltd. 3,4,5,6,8,11,12,14 - Arthur Prinsen.

"Wonderful"!

I've got all of the LPs of this organ,sadly my copy of this one gets worse sound wise during the last two tracks. The organ is due or was due to go back into the ride after recieving some TLC.

what happened to his channel?

All arrangements by Tony Decap

Last song name?

14:57 Rivers of Babylony, isn't it?

Decap organs have a very beautiful combination of acustic percussions and organ tubes incluiding real accordions with a electric organ, creating a very lovely sound.

Interesting version of "Het Smurfenlied".

There is a recording somewhere on yt of a similar organ playing "Via Eupen".

I spent many happy hours at the keyframe of this organ, i never did get through all the music!, had 14 cases and loads of seperate books, the scale of it is very versatile and it would play anything, both Brian and Boz Oram arranged a lot of music for it and there were arrangements from Hooghuys, Schollaert, Urbain van Wichelen and Arthur Prinsen, now in Belgium with the Rorive family and missed from the rally scene over here where it was local to me for many years, Boz would start in in the morning and just leave me with it all day so i could play what i liked, mind you, some of the music was better left in the cases, lol!

I've never the title of the last piece - it wasn't on the book itself. I've heard it on German organs.

First time i have noticed it says Electronique on the bass drum, i thought this was a complete pipe organ, doesn't sound like synthesized sounds are used.

Nice

Danke

@khmam this is great!!

What happened to this organ?

Sure I've got a cassette of this organ.

An excellent LP indeed! Featuring arrangements by Albert Decap, (I think) Dick Gillet and of course some excellent work by Willy Van Wichelen (aka Willy Rockin).

Piccadilly no Picalilly

This was from the LP called 65 Key Wurlitzer, right? Now owned by Glenn Thomas of the US.

I would like to know the name of the tune's being played if that is okay with you.

I wish this was a video showing the full organ, plus watching the various instruments play.

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11 - Glaxonwals is actually a beautiful song called "L'amour est un bouquet de violettes"

The fact that some of the percussions are playing the wrong notes is a strange quirk of LiLi as the wood block plays the crash cymbal The crash cymbal plays the hi hat & the hi hat plays the wood block a most unique arrangement that many say gives LiLi her distinctive sound & makes her stand out from other 72 key Decap organs. How this came about is an unsolved mystery as no recordings exist of LiLi during her working life & one can assume she was built with this error which no one has noticed over the years as the general public who know nothing about organs would not even notice this strange quirk & so it has become a hallmark of the sound of LiLi & as far as is known she still has this unique quirk to this day! Some say to rectify it would ruin LiLis unique sound as it is an instant giveaway to the identity of the organ that some say should be left well alone as LiLi would not be LiLi without her strange quirk!

I volunteered at this museum in the mid '80's. Not long before he passed away, I've just discovered. Frank was a marvellous friendly eccentric man. I loved the hat he used to wear. My main memory of the Church was when I heard an interesting piano piece being played in the centre. I stopped what I was doing to hear it more clearly. There were several people flocked around a grand piano so I went to join them. Sitting at the piano was a little boy gallantly moving his fingers across the keys. I thought he was doing quite a good job of moving to the correct keys with the music. It was after all, a Duo Art Steinway Grand Player Piano. I then realised the young Lad was actually playing and not mimicking. A serious Beethoven piece if I recall. And played well! He was at the ripe old age of Six. I wonder where life led him? Maybe someone knows...

0:00 Wien Bleibt Wien 2:52 Blue Danube Waltz 6:42 La Paloma 9:36 La Cucaracha 11:57 Wooden Heart 14:03 Over The Waves 17:24 Tiritomba 20:03 Londonderry Air 22:25 Radetzky march 25:30 Perlenfischer

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That tune,well known,is actually a Austrian Military March! And it wasn't the only one circuses used! Thank you for a bright and shiny video! Thank you 😇 😊!

12 is Soldatenblut Marsch 13 is Deutschmeister Regiments Marsch

This is a late organ built after World War Two by Rene van den Bosch who carried on running the Mortier firm until it's final closure in 1952.

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This is basically a regular Arburo under another name as the internal mechanisms are identical to the Arburo. So how did this come about? Who was Wilro De Mey & what connection did he have with Arthur Bursens?

Whose arranged that version of 12th Street Rag?

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Some spirited renditions here. I'm very fond of the distinctive Mortier sound.

What a great sound this organ has, I love the accordion too.

We need the rest of those videos