Draaiorgel de Vijf Beelden ( en: ''Dutch street organ of the Five Figures''), or De Vijf Beeldenkast ( en: ''The Five Figures Cabinet'') was a

Dutch street organ A street organ (french: orgue de rue or ''orgue de barbarie''; german: Straßenorgel) played by an organ grinder is a French-German automatic mechanical pneumatic organ designed to be mobile enough to play its music in the street. The two most co ...

with 52 keys.

Course of life

Originally, the organ was built as Gasparini organ and possibly rebuilt at Limonaire. It came in 1910 with the ''Gebroeders'' he Brothersin the . The organ had five figures: one conductor, two calling ( nl: '' slaande'') ladies and two rigid (not moving) ladies in dance posture. The first years of its existence, the organ has had some tenants, such as ''De Kraai'', ''De Manke'', and ''Willem Renz''. Then the organ is sold to ''Holvoet'' which sends it in 1926 to

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in Breda, to let it grow. With this renovation, the organ gets another front, the five figures disappear, but retains its

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mechanics. A few years later ''Henk Möhlmann'' from

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bought organ. He places two Gasparin side pictures and a Limonaire middle picture the organ. For the side panels, it uses two female figures of the Organ Valhalla. Now the organ was again literally become ''De Vijf Beelden'' he Five Pictures as the name was in the beginning. After that the organ has walked for many years in

and

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. In the 70s, the organ was bought by in

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n automobile museum in the Netherlands This beautiful organ was already little more about. Most of the pipes (including the

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of Carl Frei) were removed and most of the books remained with the old owner behind. After Autotron was closed, the organ was sold. Where the organ hangs out these days, is not entirely known.

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