Monday, 16 September 2019

Why in Ligueil?


Before we attended 'Les Percufolies' event in Ligueil on Sunday I had wondered why the event was being held there. Our friend Pauline had let me know that Ligueil is the home of 'Bergerault', now an international brand of percussion instruments - vibraphones, marimbas etc. - who would have known?  It was in the town that Albert Bergerault a musician and inventor set up a small factory in 1932 making xylaphones and other musical instruments. The website for the event gives a potted history of the man here.



In 1973 he invented a large musical ensemble that worked from an accordion. After his death in 1989, his son Jean and his daughter Colette Fergeau kept the memory of their father going through demonstrations of this musical ensemble.

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