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Description
11" (28 cm.) Encased in a lovely table-top sized
fruitwood box is a hand-driven barrel organ with
10 open metal pipes. Its sound,consisting of 8
short tunes whose names are listed on the
ink-script paper tune label on the inside lid,is
created by turning the wooden hand-crank at the
box exterior. Labert-Humbert,Mirecourt
(Vosges),early 19th century. The original purpose
of the serinette (from the French word serin for
canary) was to teach domestic canaries to sing.
Interestingly,one of the tunes is Le Bois de
Boulogne,a popular bird watching site in Paris.
Bearing the original maker's label,this serinette
is preserved in fine original condition. $1500/2500