Folded cardboard book-music “Potpourri from the operetta ‘Silva’ (The Csárdás Princess) (Die Csárdásfürstin)” by Imre Kalman
Folded cardboard book-music “Potpourri from the operetta ‘Silva’ (The Csárdás Princess) (Die Csárdásfürstin)” by Imre Kalman
Germany, Waldkirch, Schwarzwald
The 1990s
Composer Kalman, Imre; orchestrator Bruder Gustav, Paul Fleck Söhne Orgelbau
Cardboard; perforation
Handwritten inscription on the cover: “Die Csárdásfürstin”, “Potpourri von / E. Kálman”, “Bearbeitungen / von Gustav Bruder”
The folded cardboard book-music feature perforation of fifty-two tracks of round holes – the encoded control sequence for a musical instrument to reproduce the melody “Potpourri from the operetta ‘Silva’ (The Csárdás Princess) (Die Csárdásfürstin)” by the Hungarian composer Imre (Emmerich) Kalman (October 24, 1882 – October 30, 1953), written in 1915.
Musical instrument: fairground organ 662/ММП.
1174ММП662/TP