Bass Accompaniment Pipework in the
Pianella Monstre Paganini Orchestrion

Pipework in the "Bass Accompaniment" section.

The bass-accompaniment section pipe chest, as seen from the right side of the Paganini orchestrion, is located in the right (side-wing) compartment, and is situated vertically at the same height level as is the Melodie Violin pipe chest. The two foremost pipe ranks are not installed.

At the left is the percussive trapwork section, which sits at the front side (to the left in this side view) of the bass-accompaniment chest. The backside of the bass drum is visible at top left, with its distinctive red and white painted rim. The reiterating snare drum and tambourine are suspended below the bass drum shelf, with just an edge of the tambourine's bright red rim visible.

Underneath the bass-accompaniment chest (at the bottom of the photograph) is the 30-note reiterating xylophone. Only a portion of its backside is visible.

Bass Accompaniment pipework
160 pipes total (front to back):

  • 14 Bassoons (Fagott -- reed pipes voiced to imitate a bassoon) -- NOT INSTALLED
  • 14 Trombones (Posaune -- horn reed pipes with wood boots and tapered wood resonators) -- NOT INSTALLED
  • 18 Piccolos (wood flute pipes)
  • 18 Violins (2nd violin -- wood violin pipes with brass freins)
  • 18 Gedackt pipes (large wooden stopped flutes)
  • 14 Gedackt pipes (bass -- large wooden stopped flutes)
  • 18 Violins (wood violin pipes with brass freins)
  • 18 Bass Flutes (wooden open flutes)
  • 14 Violas (wood string pipes with wooden rollers)
  • 14 Bass Violins (wood string pipes with wooden rollers)

The five 14-note bass-accompaniment chest ranks (Bassoon, Trombone, Gedackt, Viola, and Bass Violin) are scale extensions of the deep-bass pipe ranks. The five 18-note ranks are musically different, have separate register controls and can be alternately viewed as either an accompaniment or Melodie Violin division, depending upon your point of reference.
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