The Organ collection Ghysels is a museum collection of mechanical

dance Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoir ...

and

fairground organ A fairground organ (french: limonaire) is a French pneumatic musical organ covering the wind and percussive sections of an orchestra. Originated in Paris, France, it was designed for use in commercial fairground settings to provide loud music ...

s. Since 2010 it is exhibited at the Kijk- en Luisterdepot (Watch and Listen Depot) in

Kallo Kallo is a village and ''deelgemeente'' (sub-municipality) of Beveren in East Flanders, Belgium. Kallo was an independent municipality until 1 January 1977, when it merged with Beveren as part of the fusion of municipalities in Belgium. Most of ...

Beveren Beveren () is a municipality in the Belgian province of East Flanders which comprises the towns of Beveren, Doel, Haasdonk, Kallo, Kieldrecht, Melsele, Verrebroek and Vrasene. The port of the Waasland (Dutch: ''Waaslandhaven'') is in Beveren, ...

, Belgium. It was brought together by Jef Ghysels from

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.Kunsterfgoed
De Collectie Ghysels
last visited on 5 November 2018 Great part of the organs operated before the

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Continental Superstar, de collectie Ghysels
8 October 2008 The collection consists of four large historical organs and twelve smaller ones, a number of organ statues, books and documentation material. The oldest organ is ''L'Hermione'' from

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that dates from 1895. The youngest piece is the ''Brusilia''; commissioned by Ghysels it was built in 1976. The organs in the collection were operated at parties, dance events, year fairs, and on the streets. The collection was bought by the

Flemish Community The Flemish Community ( nl, Vlaamse Gemeenschap ; french: Communauté flamande ; german: Flämische Gemeinschaft ) is one of the three institutional communities of Belgium, established by the Belgian constitution and having legal responsibilitie ...

in 2007. The first exhibition was held from October 2008 to March 2009 in the

Art & History Museum The Art & History Museum (french: Musée Art & Histoire, nl, Museum Kunst & Geschiedenis) is a public museum of antiquities and ethnographic and decorative arts located at the Cinquantenaire, Parc du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark in Brussels, Bel ...

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, where the ball room ''Continental Superstar'' was specially created. In 2010 it was transferred to the Kijk en Luisterdepot (Watch and Listen Depot) in Kallo, near to

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. Here the instruments are stored under acclimatised conditions at Katoen Natie. Guided tours are given here in which is clarified the history of dance and fair culture at the beginning of the 20th century. In 2013 the collection was allocated to Museum Vleeshuis.G-Geschiedenis
Dansorgels Ghysels
Siebrand Krul, 6 August 2015 The collection still remains in Kallo until Vleeshuis has been renovated.

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