has decided not to touch anything.
The concept of restoration of this thing, in my estimation, is reduced to two topics.
- Appearance.
All can be seen in the photographs, the charm of antiquity with small losses on the face.
Masters worked in engineering marquetry, theoretically small loss can be recovered.
Perhaps such recovery will be optically clear, that in my eyes worsen the perception of charm.
- Technology
Mechanics all on the ground, hand-organ playing, but not quite purely in a musical concept. There are many parts of the tree, which is shrunken, something shifted, etc. The main components in good condition. He showed the apparatus to the local restorer sharmanok. The first thing he said - sell. All on-site - adjust /Curl does not matter. But something my hand is not raised, what would someone intermeddle in the original state of the art.

Dear and how many such artifacts are ?
saw the same apparatus , there was an inscription on the body,Nacada Bulkowski 139 Odessa, at the music box 1414

david6 in the crisis, the price of such artifacts are defined simply, is "how much you give".
It may happen that nothing at all will give, not interested and that's it.

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Two years ago in Tbilisi for such prestariang the thing asked for $ 15,000.

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A month ago in Moscow asked for 500,000 rubles. Half a million.

You would like to talk about the restoration of the organ with the owner of the Museum of mechanical music, Varkaus and its Director, stunning collector jürgen Kempf. In the Museum guides are included in the Finnish Top 10.
More than 400 exhibits from mechanical boxes and street barrel organs to orchestrion tools that have common features with the organ and harmonica. 7 large halls located violin, phonographs, jukeboxes and tape recorders over the years. Many of them are in working condition and the music they listen to.
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"This is a journey into the musical past with different stages of development of mechanical music from the 1850's to the present day. Music boxes, mechanical piano, violin and accordion, hurdy-gurdies from a simple table to the big street "Amadeus", the largest in the world orchestrion hall Popper Goliath with 75 musicians and numerous soundtracks, gramophones and record players-machines used to play music".

Communicated with Jurgen on shorter - he's a German, a former military NATO settled in Finland. A real fan gathering around the world and restoring the rarities of mechanical music.

Maybe he'd be able to tell.

Pelimanninkatu 8, Varkaus
Tel:+358 (0)10 239 03 80
www.mekaanisenmusiikinmuseo.fi

history of the organ, which began this topic.
A year and a half, watched the market in Europe, the findings were not encouraging, there were a couple of auction sales within 4500-5500 euros, according to the collection auction, on the background of falling interest and demand for Pro-Russian in General. Minus invoices and collecting auction is 3500-4000 Euro at the hands of the seller.
Unlike painting, the demand for such items, potential buyers, a lot of money, one to another, and from time to time, not one. The subject of optically interesting, but it is not "dancing" in "lush" antique interior, especially in the battered form. In artistic terms, Marquetry technique, the subject is relatively weak, as if to restore a lost charm.
In total I sold the barrel organ, with difficulty, for 3500 euros. It was came from far and under the client. Do not rule out that the price in the last hand was 10.000$, which in those days, taking into account overhead and small restoration, quite rightly.

139-I Sharmanka
 

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