Our Tunes-List for Automatic Musical Instruments
Listen and choice tunes we arrange and punch for all types of antique and new automatic musical instruments. No payment on line.
Perforated paper rolls
Folded cardboard music books
Midi files engraved on smart cards
We have a great choice of original arrangments for antique Limonaire, Gasparini, Thibouville-Lamy, Hooghuys, Marenghi, Gavioli, Mortier, Decap, etc. Also we arrange new tunes for crank organs. We are able to arrange your music, for your instruments, at will (On estimate).
To choose, click here (tunes-list of international and french titles, translation coming soon !
3440 different titles available
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INSTRUCTIONS
1. file your name.
2. What is your organ maker ?
3. What is your organ model : keys ou keyless, notes number; other ?
4. Choose titles classified by alphabetical order; by theme; by composer; by songwriter; by entertainer; by epoca.
5. Prices appear in front of your choice. NOTA : No payment on line
6. Listen to a short extract (25 seconds) from a MIDI file (click on the loudspeaker at your left). Keep in mind that your hear your PC and not a real instrument.
7. To order, tick the box at right. The total account is shown above.
8. Finally, you have to validate your order on a next page. Please, fill your complete postal address. Don't forget to click "VALIDEZ" at the end of the process.
Any order implies the acceptance of our general conditions of sale.
CONDITIONS of SALES
Our supplies must be paid upon order (by Bank tranfer or Paypal). An invoice is sent to you upon receipt of your order giving you the exact amount of the supply and shipping and packaging costs. The packages are sent with tracking service (Colissimo / Chronopost / UPS / FeDex / others). The deadline is given as an indication, since we do not control the postal deadlines. Of cours, you can pick up your order at our workshop, by appointment.
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Throughout my professional life, I do repair automata.
Convinced by the magic of these old-fashioned artefacts the impact of which on generations of public does not weaken, I deliver through these few presentations my searches on the history of these animated figures, my enthusiasm for these mechanical subtleties and my admiration for these objects of power.
Mechanical musical instruments
in the streets of Europe in the 19th century
At first magic objects when the religions use them, then objects of power when they arrive on the table of the princes, musical instruments to mechanics become throughout the 19th century, the new vectors of communication:
We shall see that musical instruments to mechanics evolve and diversify according to technological breakthroughs and according to request of the publics, but also the necessary expansion of metallurgical plants and what it is advisable to call the emulation between amazing inventions of the 19th century.
Presentation in English.
Display of some antique collectibles available, on request.
Approximately one hour and quarter plus exchanges with the audience.
Video-projector with HDMI connections and HF clip-on microphone.
The Breath of Time
First, let us wonder of the durability of artistic themes as these automata flutists.
What the myth of the Human-machine, the watch-making precision of the industrial era can well be the denominator between medieval pages illustrating the alexandrine searches for the last centuries BC, the mechanical whims honoring, the old-fashioned charm of the bourgeois toys or the modern engineering of robotics to make everything?
Doubtless the breath of the Wind which goes from Vaucanson to Waseda robotics...
Presentation in English.
Display of some antique collectibles available, on request.
Approximately one hour and quarter plus exchanges with the audience.
Video-projector with HDMI connections and HF clip-on microphone.
Alexandre-Nicolas Theroude’s Automata flutists
By redrawing the epic of automata flutists, Philippe Crasse discovers what seems to him to be an injustice in the systematic oversight of Alexandre-Nicolas Théroude's works …
By looking for the sectors of manufacturing, he demonstrates by supplying sources, argues and, making undergo a paternity test to the rare copies still of this world, raise the card of the genome of one of them, badly attributed, and so returns to Théroude, bad-known manufacturer, the masterpiece which the offspring deprived to him.
Presentation in English.
Display of some antique collectibles available, on request.
Approximately one hour and quarter plus exchanges with the audience.
Video-projector with HDMI connections and HF clip-on microphone.
The Technique in the service of Art
To check the crown of Hieron, Archimedeus expresses the foundations of the fluid mechanics, at the same time as Ktesibios, designer of the water-organ. Without alexandrine thaumaturges and Vitruvius’s works, how Filippo Brunelleschi would have gone up the dome of Firenze cathedral?
Vasari, Michel-angel and Vinci dissect bodies, to understand the muscle structure and volumes, make progress prospect and colorimetry … Descartes illustrates his speech with Hortus Palatinus design and compares its floods with the blood circulation which William Harvey describes at the same time.
Through some underestimated examples, we shall see how much essential are the links which unite the arts and the technique since the highest antiquity…
Presentation in English.
Display of some antique collectibles available, on request.
Approximately one hour and quarter plus exchanges with the audience.
Video-projector with HDMI connections and HF clip-on microphone.
Automaton, as Object of Power
Since ancient times, moving figures connected to clockwork and music held the masses captivated, - and hence in line. From the Renaissance on forwards, spectacular table ornaments for the heirarchy were devised to hold guests in some apprehension and awe of their hosts’ intellect, all for the same purpose.
Here, we see the animated Devil of Manfredo Settala that rolls his eyes and spits smoke from his mouth. And over there, the guests of Charles V are stunned by a Nef or masted galleon that drifts forward and fires a shot.
Our guides are the experts, restorers and organ-builders, Philippe Crasse and Eve Chaillat of Le Ludion in Toulouse, France.
Presentation in English.
Display of some antique collectibles available, on request.
Approximately one hour and quarter plus exchanges with the audience.
Video-projector with HDMI connections and HF clip-on microphone.
Art in Motion, from Automata to Kinetic Art
This lecture will be presented on next AUTOMATACON 2020
POSPONED to 2022, from 20th to 22th of May
Musiques en Ors
Mechanical Snuffboxes 1770-1820
Aesthetic approach, technological innovations and refined luxury...
Presentation in English.
Display of some antique collectibles available, on request.
Approximately one hour plus exchanges with the audience.
Video-projector with HDMI connections (HF clip-on microphone for more than 50 people).
Born on 23 January 1951, Philippe CRASSE founded the Atelier Le LUDION, rue Fermat in Toulouse, with his wife Eve Chaillat on 1976, 15th of June. This first entity evolves in Sarl on 1986, 1st of January.
Professional activities
Founder and statutory manager of the Traditional Manufacture of Limonaires and street organs Le Ludion.
Restoration of automaton instruments for public museums and private collections all around the world.
Creation of automatic musical instruments for French and foreign customers.
Patent for Invention 04.00603 to INPI: Method of musical generation through a new encoding of the data by the use of the chip card as memory support in place of the perforated cardboard.
Expertise of public and private collections, collaboration with various studies of auctioneer, expertise in the judicial framework.
Titles
Head craftsman of Art.
Living Heritage Company - Label awarded by the Ministry of Commerce & SME in 2006, renewed in 2012 and en 2018.
Member of the company of Experts of Justice near the Court of Appeal of Toulouse since 2007.
Member of the Board of Trustees of the company of Experts of Justice near the Court of Appeal of Toulouse, representative of group B-Arts Culture and media.
General secretary from 2012 to 2016
Publisher of the company Gazette until 2016.
Accreditation as an Expert in auctions by the Conseil des Ventes Volontaires C.V.V. N ° 2008-658.
Accreditation as an expert at the C.N.E.S. National Chamber of Experts specialising in objects of Art and Collection in 2010.
Member of the Board of Trustees of the National Chamber
Publisher of Mètis, the information Bulletin of CNES.
Editor of the Collection "Writings of Experts", a set of memoirs supported to obtain the title of expert before the juries of CNES.
Expert member of the European Confederation of Art Experts – CEDEA
Academician of Languedoc since 2015.
Concerts and exhibitions
Curator of Musique en Boites, Boites à Malice exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris in 1987.
Conception/Realization of Aujourd'ui, c'était déjà demain, exhibition at Bazacle, EDF cultural centre in Toulouse, 1993.
All the music salons - Musicora from the beginning in 1985.
European concerts tour with Haydée ALBA - Opéra Bastille in December 2000, then Rome, Barcelona...
Regular Participation at the festivals of Waldkirch, Thun, Bern, Longiano, Les Gets.
Exhibitions and Concerts in Los Angeles-1987, Chicago-1996 and 2002, Seattle-1998, Orlando-2004; Singapore-1993, Beijing-2005, Moscow – 2006, 2007 & 2008, Rome-2010.
Publications
Exhibition catalog Musique en Boites, Boites à Malice in the Grand Palais in Paris.
Catalogue of the sale of a collection of music boxes Artcurial-Hotel Dassault in Paris.
Exhibition catalog Facture Mécanique française in Ortona (Italy).
Publisher of the quarterly Le Canard de Barbarie since 1996.
Participation in the book The Barrel piano/piano a Cilindro under the direction of Antonio Latanza, chief curator of musical Antiquities of Rome.
Memory supported by the CNES jury on December 9, 2010: La Seconde mort des Instruments de Musique à Mécaniques.
Blowin' in the Wind - à l'écoute des automates Flûtistes, monograph on Alexandre-Nicolas Théroude's masterpiece.
Presentation and workshop : MBSI Annual Convention in Detroit (2010), Chicago (2013), Automata Convention in Morristown (2016 & 2018).
Presentations
Mechanical musical instruments in the streets of Europe in the 19th century
The Breath of Time.
Alexandre-Nicolas Theroude’s Automata flutists.
The Technique in the service of Art.
Automaton, as Object of Power.
Art in motion, from Automata to Kinetic Art.
Musiques en Ors.
Awards
Prisme 1987 awarded by Association des Journalistes de la Décoration et de la Maison.
Manivelle d'or at the festival of Les Gets (Haute Savoie) in 1992.
Faust d’Argent, Toulouse (1996) Forum des Arts de l’Univers Scientifique et Technique.
Prix de la Communication à Musicora (Paris) en 1997.
Prix de la Dynamique Artisanale décerné par la Chambre des Métiers et la BPTP en 1997.
Prix de la Facture Instrumentale du Ministère de la Culture en 2001.
Fleuron d’Or de la Chambre des Métiers et de la Ville de Toulouse en 2003.
Prix de l'Innovation décerné par Mid'Innov, agence régionale de l'innovation en 2004.
Grand Prix des Métiers d’Art décerné par la Chambre des Métiers de Paris en 2004.
Golden Pony Award décerné par Games Industry à Rome en 2010.
Nominé Trésor Vivant de l'Artisanat décerné par Cigale TV et Cigale Mag en 2015, promotion Saint Jean Bosco.
Grand Prix de Musique Déodat de Sèverac, pour l'ensemble de son oeuvre décerné par l'Académie du Languedoc en 2015.
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Here you have collectibles for sale. Strictly selected, they are described with their quality and the reality of the scars of time. Go through the gallery, look at pictures; I am at your disposal to answer all your questions... If you arrive too late, you will find our archives here, in this gallery.
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Mechanical organ builder since 1976 - Certified by french label EPV (Heritage of French Savoir-Faire) - Approved restorer by Museums - Expert of Justice near the Court of Appeal of Toulouse - Expert certified by CNES & CEDEA
Testimony
Philippe Crasse is an excellent professional in the field of the expertise of musical instruments; as active member of CNES, Philippe organizes and revitalizes numerous events which have a lot of success and are hardly appreciated by the public and by his colleagues.
Publisher of periodic magazine Mètis, expert near the Court of Appeal, Philippe Crasse is a reference for the Art experts by his rigor and his business ethics.
