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Picture from the attic.
Organ build in 1928 by our grandfather Frans Decap and his brothers, the DECAP bros. company from Antwerp ( Gebroeders DECAP Antwerpen). Currently we are building a new organ very much like this one.




80 Key semi pipe/electronic organ, build by Frans and his son Francois Decap in 1957 for a dancing in Belgium.

 

The company "Gebroeders DECAP Antwerp", which is still in existence today and of which our grandfather Frans Decap was a brother/co-founder until he left in 1932-33, is not to be confused with our company. We are the brothers Frank and Tony DECAP from Herentals, Belgium, children of Francois Decap, only son of Frans. Even after the separation, we never stopped building organs in the DECAP tradition with the utmost care, and we are comitted to keep the organ trade as exiting and inventive as it was in the early 1900's. To be able to serve customers all over the world with the best support possible, we strive to have good working relations with other companies in the organ business. In this regard, we are glad to say that the differences that made our grandfhater leave Antwerp are past, and that we can count on the "Gebroeders DECAP Antwerp" as a companion in our quest for "the ultimate automated music machine".

 





Frans Decap, co-founder of the "Gebroeders DECAP Antwerpen", which he left 1932-33 to start his own company in Herentals, a city about 30 Km from Antwerp, Belgium.


 

This picture is from the archive of "Het Pierement", a very well organized magazine about organs and related subjects from Holland.
Left to right: Frans Decap (driver), Leon Decap (next driver), Camile Decap (behind driver) and father Alois Decap (on trailer with organ)."

 

Alois Decap & Emma Verhaeghe