Details
An automaton barrel organ by Bruder,
with twenty-two key action, four stops and automaton scene with seventeen moving figures, comprising five dancers on a central rotating platform, conductor and five musicians, a jester and bystanders in various costumes, in brass-bound case with pierced and embossed organ-pipe pattern sound-fret -- 23½ in. (59.5 cm.) wide, the eight-air barrel 19½ (49.5 cm.)
with twenty-two key action, four stops and automaton scene with seventeen moving figures, comprising five dancers on a central rotating platform, conductor and five musicians, a jester and bystanders in various costumes, in brass-bound case with pierced and embossed organ-pipe pattern sound-fret -- 23½ in. (59.5 cm.) wide, the eight-air barrel 19½ (49.5 cm.)
Further details
On the windchest, as shown in a photograph accompanying the organ, is an indistinct inscription in which can be seen the words Bruder, Waldkirch, and a date 1838 or 1858. Ignaz Bruder Senior died in 1845; Gebruder Bruder, which included Ignaz Junior, was formed in 1864.