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An organ grinder in Mexico City. The organ grinder was a musical novelty street performer of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century, and refers to the operator of a street or barrel organ. A grinder of music (1796), a hand-tinted etching by Isaac Cruikshank
In the eighteenth century, the term hurdy-gurdy was also applied to a small, portable barrel organ or street organ (a cranked box instrument with a number of organ pipes, a bellows and a barrel with pins that rotated and programmed the tunes) that was frequently played by poor buskers, street musicians specifically called organ grinders.
A barrel organ player in Vienna, Austria A barrel organ player in Warnemünde, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. A barrel organ (also called roller organ or crank organ) is a French [1] mechanical musical instrument consisting of bellows and one or more ranks of pipes housed in a case, usually of wood, and often highly decorated.
A fairground organ is a musical organ covering the wind and percussive sections of an orchestra. Originated in Paris , France , it was designed for use in commercial fairground settings to provide loud music to accompany rides and attractions, mostly merry-go-rounds .
The Organ Grinder's Wurlitzer is one of three organs used to record Symphonic Suite for Three Organs by Richard Purvis. [10] (1975) Jonas – Gamba Records JN 104 (LP record): Jonas Nordwall, organist (1976) At the Organ Grinder – Organ Grinder OG-101 (LP record): David Lee, Jonas Nordwall, Paul Quarino, Don Simmons organists.
Joe Bush (born c. 1941) was an organ grinder based in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Bush began his organ-grinding career in 1975. According to the Los Angeles Times, "Now, with his 65th birthday approaching, Bush is the only organ grinder left in the New York area. He is barrel-chested and mustachioed.
Rushworth and Dreaper was a firm of organ builders, and later general instrument suppliers associated with Paul McCartney, [1] based in Liverpool. [ 2 ] The manufacturer was founded in 1828 by William Rushworth .
The 52-key 'De Gouden Limonaire' (The Golden Limonaire) in the Museum Speelklok in Utrecht, The Netherlands Small Limonaire Frères street organ, with decorated facade. Limonaire Frères were an amusement ride, street organ and fairground organ builder, based in Paris, France, during the 19th and early 20th century.