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Retour au Sommaire Establishment ODIN Fabrication Organ of Barrel: organ barrel  with mechanical reading
79 Le Crêt Pendu - 42170 - Saint Just-Saint Rambert - France        Tel +33 ( 0)4 77 36 47 69

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 FOLDING CARDBOARD MUSIC BOOKS

 Thirty years ago, when the mechanical music agonizes, the search of folding cardboard music books leads André Odin to meet Paul Eynard and a whole world of devotees.A sign?

Soon after,,André meets Pierre Charial, cardboard music books maker. Fundamental encounter, with durable effects since, today still, our close connections allow us to progress in similar ways, Pierre in the cardboard music books, and us, in the making and  improvement of the organs.

Pierre Charial creates in his workshop, note after note, the folding cardboard music books which materialize the piece orchestration and Pierre's own interpretation .
Because of its meticulousness and high level of expertise, P.Charial's work combines the talents of a craftsman-artist , a musician and a conductor together, to realize a visual and musical masterpiece.

In 1979, Francoise Terrioux and Pierre Charial meet André Odin, mechanical organ builder from Saint-Just-sur-Loire (Today, St Just -St Rambert).
Armong the rare working ones in Europe, he is the only one to equip his instruments, beyond tradition, with technical  improvements which allow them to meet contemporary music requirements.The running of his organs, entirely mechanical,ensures them an amazing dynamics of sound, impossible to reach, till then, with traditional technology.

At last, the particular attention paid to the pipes harmonization marks André Odin's signature.

"The street corners Old asthmatic organ takes off, rises, spins round the wings of a dream mill...

Pierre Charial  is the amazing poet and pilot of this sound machine,

initiating a harmonious melodic spirit , a harmonic knowledge,

a rhytmic grace never heard before on this cardboard music books and crank machine.

Pierre Charial is the first virtuoso and unusual swinging BACHrel organ soloist."

 Claude Nougaro