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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.
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.
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 ...
After the United States Government imposed high import tariffs on street and fairground organ importation in 1892, [12] Wurlitzer began producing mechanical organs. Most were small barrel organs , playing from a pinned barrel and powered by either steam or cranked by hand.
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 ...
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 Brief History of Hot Dogs You can’t tell the story of the American hot dog without starting in Europe. After all, modern sausage culture was born in Germany before traveling to the U.S. in the ...
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.