拍品专文
The partnership of Benjamin Flight and Joseph Robson was founded in 1805. They specialized in church and barrel organs until their business ended in bankruptcy in 1832.
细节
A COMBINATION CHAMBER ORGAN AND BARREL ORGAN BY FLIGHT AND ROBSON, LONDON, CIRCA 1820
Inscribed: Flight & Robson Organ Builders TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE Prince Regent No. 101 St. Martin's Lane, LONDON; the case of mahogany, the upper sections extensively carved in a gothic manner, with 21 non-speaking gilt facade pipes, the 58-note keyboard with ivory naturals and ebony accidentals, with the divided manual compass (bottom G, A, A#, B play the notes from the 16' series when the Stopped Diapason Bass is drawn; short bottom octave), eight handstops with ivory knobs (Left- Open Diapason: 8'; Left- Stopped Diapason Bass: 8'; Right- Stopped Diapason Treble: 8'; Left- Principal Bass: 4'; Right - Principal Treble: 4'; Left- Fifteenth Bass: 2'; Right- Fifteenth Treble: 2'; Right - Hautboy: 8'), three iron pedals to the front, plus one iron pump pedal, the barrell playing mechanism with brass and rosewood crank pumped by brass and rosewood lever
Inscribed: Flight & Robson Organ Builders TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE Prince Regent No. 101 St. Martin's Lane, LONDON; the case of mahogany, the upper sections extensively carved in a gothic manner, with 21 non-speaking gilt facade pipes, the 58-note keyboard with ivory naturals and ebony accidentals, with the divided manual compass (bottom G, A, A#, B play the notes from the 16' series when the Stopped Diapason Bass is drawn; short bottom octave), eight handstops with ivory knobs (Left- Open Diapason: 8'; Left- Stopped Diapason Bass: 8'; Right- Stopped Diapason Treble: 8'; Left- Principal Bass: 4'; Right - Principal Treble: 4'; Left- Fifteenth Bass: 2'; Right- Fifteenth Treble: 2'; Right - Hautboy: 8'), three iron pedals to the front, plus one iron pump pedal, the barrell playing mechanism with brass and rosewood crank pumped by brass and rosewood lever