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A dance organ (French: Orgue de danse) is a mechanical organ designed to be used in a dance hall or ballroom. Originated and popularized in Paris , it is intended for use indoors as dance organs tend to be quieter than the similar fairground organ .
Mortier started in 1898 as a vending agent for the Parisian organ builder Gavioli & Cie, in a period when the French and German organ industry was in full bloom. Theophile Mortier was originally the manager of a dance hall, in which there was always a Gavioli organ playing. He made it a habit to sell the installed organ after a short while.
These pipe organs use a piano roll player or other mechanical means instead of a keyboard to play a prepared song: Orchestrion; Fairground organ (or band organ in the USA) Dutch street organ; Dance organ; The wind can also be created by using pressurized steam instead of air. The steam organ, or calliope, was invented in the United States in ...
Manufacturers of fairground organs also typically made instruments for indoor use in dance halls, called dance organs; and smaller versions for travelling street use, called street organs. Like all mechanical instruments, fairground organs have been made by a myriad of manufacturers, in various sizes and to various technical specifications ...
Decap Dance Organ "De Kempenaer" (1938 Made by Belgian Decup) on Rokko Forest Sound Museum in Kobe, Japan. A mechanical organ is an organ that is self-playing, rather than played by a musician. For example, the barrel organ is activated either by a person turning a crank, or by clockwork driven by weights or springs. [1]
A street organ (French: orgue de rue or orgue de barbarie) played by an organ grinder is a French automatic mechanical pneumatic organ designed to be mobile enough to play its music in the street. The two most commonly seen types are the smaller German and the larger Dutch street organ.
Reginald Herbert Dixon, MBE, ARCM (16 October 1904 – 9 May 1985) was an English theatre organist who was primarily known for his position as organist at the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool, a position he held from March 1930 until March 1970.
A combo organ, so-named and classified by popular culture due to its original intended use by small, touring jazz, pop and dance groups known as "combo bands", as well as some models having "Combo" as part of their brand or model names, is an electronic organ of the frequency divider type, generally produced between the early 1960s and the late 1970s.