This street organ with handle made by the well known Gavioli firm plays eight melodies noted on a pinned wooden cylinder. Thanks to three sets of wooden pipes, in other words seventy-nine pipes in a restricted putting one set in the main frame as well as for the crafting of the trumpets. This latter set, which gives the instrument, its powerful sound, along with the piccolos of the set above (very small wooden pipes hence high-pitched) defines the timbre of these instruments dating from the middle of the 19th century. According to numerous historical documents, we know that this type of organ was not designed to accompany songs but to draw a crowd before an acrobatic performance or a magic lantern showing or even the reading of a pamphlet.