THE CEMENTMOLEN (Cement mixer)

Dutch street organ. Owner: H. Roos in Rotterdam.

Organ builder Carl Frei from Breda, shipped this instrument to the first owner, the Amsterdam organ renter W. van Jaaren in 1935.

This 90-key organ got its name by the unusually big cranking wheel with straight spokes, reminding to this building equipment. Later on a normal wheel was fitted, but the nickname lasted.

After WW II is was sold to Mr. Henk Möhlmann, another organ renting firm. In 1955 the organ was destroyed because it hit a low railway bridge in Amsterdam, standing on a truck. The proscenium and the organ chest were repaired by Mr. van den Heuvel in Haarlem, but it took eleven years before the organ parts were bought by the present owner; his brother Jan Roos, who assembled the instrument and made new bellows and a new keyframe. The finished organ reappeared on the street in 1967.

In 1978 werd het front "op nieuw hout gezet" en geschilderd door Feite Posthumus uit Bergambacht. Carl Frei Jr. te Waldkirch verving enige rijen pijpen door nieuwe. Het register Bifoon II (op tegenzang) werd veranderd van 8' + 8' naar 8'+ 4', een octaaf hoger, naar de mode van die tijd.

Bezetting:

Melodie: 22 tonen g’-d'''-e'''-f"’.

Viool 8', drie rijen.

Bourdon céleste 8', twee rijen

Viool céleste 8', twee rijen

Fluit 4', een rij

Tegenzang: 17 tonen gº-aº-c"

Unda Maris 8', twee rijen

Bifoon II 8' + 4', twee rijen

Begeleiding: 17 tonen cº-dº-eº--f#’ Gedekt 8' met prestant 8'

Bas 8 tonen G-A-Bes-B-c-d-e-f Gedekt 16' - Gedekt 8' - Prestant 4'

8 trombones G-A-Bes-B-C-D-E-F op register. (C is de laagste toon)

Grote trom met bekkenslag, kleine trom

foto: KDV