On the occasion of 250th anniversary of the foundation of the Financial Policethe Cremonese headquarters of the Fiamme Gialle in via Zara will be enriched with a special musical instrument: a Anelli autoplan from 1924.
Thanks to the “Welcome home!” project promoted and coordinated by prof. Fabio Perrone and supported on this occasion from Inner Wheel and the Rotary Club of Cremonaanother significant cultural asset for the history of the city’s music has returned to the headquarters that was the site of the Anelli Pianoforti Cremona a century ago.
Next to the Verticoda Anelli matr. n. 15298 donated to the Guardia di Finanza in 2021 found hospitality in the “Conference Room” of the Provincial Command another unique and rare piece which bears the writing “Anelliola” on the front panel – a synthesis between “Anelli” and “piano” – with which brand the musical instrument was identified which, thanks to pneumatic mechanisms, could play automatically thanks to the insertion of pre-programmed rollers.
The development of the mechanical piano, which was very expensive at the time as the selling price was three times that of a “normal” mechanical piano, had its sales peak in 1924, the year in which its decline began, due to the spread of the phonograph and the advent and spread of the radio, the latter starting from 1929.
Thanks to the availability of the Provincial Commander, Col. Massimo Dell’Anna, the “Anelliola” master plan. n. 5367 has found its new location next to the Anelli verticoda where it will be able to demonstrate not only the twentieth-century Cremonese manufacturing expertise in the musical field but will be able to fully represent that symbol of entrepreneurial correctness and the fight against counterfeiting – central values in the protection of economic and financial legality carried out by the Corps – which, a century ago, animated the knight of work Pietro Anelli. In fact, he gave a memorable speech in 1928 to the Provincial Council of the Economy of Cremona which reiterated the need for correct production of goods – also in the piano sector – using non-counterfeit trademarks and assuming entrepreneurial responsibility for the products by affixing the same name.
The Anelli company, during its activity, produced around 50 thousand pianos, many of which, like the verticoda and the autopiano now owned by the Guardia di Finanza of Cremona, are in perfect working order.
The donation of the “Anelliola” autoplan which will officially take place on the evening of Wednesday 22 May, supported by the presidents of Inner Wheel Maria Luisa Dondè Mondini and the Rotary Club of Cremona Claudio Bodiniwill be preceded by a short report on Anelli’s rollers and flatbed trucks by the prof. Pietro Zappalà, President of the “Claudio Monteverdi” Conservatory of Cremona and professor of the University of Pavia, and prof. Fabio Perrone of the Academia Cremonensis. With this initiative, the bond of the Guardia di Finanza with the Cremona area and its strong musical vocation will be further strengthened, values which, symbolically, renew the significant historical reference to the headquarters of the Provincial Command of Cremona in via Zara, already the place of production of the renowned “Rings” pianos.
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