De Lieve Stem - Gasparini Draaiorgel

Jim Harper’s Gasparini street organ “De Lieve Stem“. Originally a barrel organ but converted to book by Gasparini in the 1890s. This was altered to play the Perlee 52-key scale around 1930 and is the only surviving organ playing this scale. Perlee have recut all their original arrangements for this scale for the organ. It is said that this is the oldest draaiorgel in existence. Jim has rebuilt this after acquiring it from the US some years ago as a hopeless crate of bits which was how it had sat for the pre