A Concert of Tractors in the Gers

According to the organizers it’s a world premiere, six very old tractors giving a concert.

It is an interesting sextet playing one Sunday afternoon in Fourcès, in the Gers (France). Six tractors interpreted the "Se Canto" for the first concert of a polyphonic ensemble of single-cylinder tractors.

In front of several hundred spectators, with the scenery of a few haystacks and a combine harvester, six farmers with beret, in their sixties, played pistons.

The conductor and his musicians 

At the first piston, was André Riu on a Société Francais hV1; on the cornet, Gérard Vingnoles on a Field Marshall 1 H; on trombone, Christian Lavigne-Casteran on a SVF 401; the bass was provided by Daniel Cassagne on a SVF 302; the bugle was the responsibility of Henri De Biasi on SVF 202 and the percussions devolved to Marcel Lacouture on an SVF 302. Of the six machines, five tractors were manufactured by the French company Société Francais, in Vierzon. As a result, the concert recorded by many spectators is entitled "Concerto for Vierzons”."