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A book playing a large Gavioli fairground organ. Book music (French: Livre de musique) is a medium for storing the music played on mechanical organs, mainly of European manufacture. Book music is made from thick cardboard, containing perforated holes specifying the musical notes to be played, with the book folded zig-zag style.
Magna Organ introduced in 1935, [7] [8] was a multi-timbral keyboard instrument invented in 1934 by a Yamaha engineer, Sei-ichi Yamashita. It was a kind of electro-acoustic instrument, an acoustic instrument with additional electronic circuits for sound modification.
The organ chassis was typically covered with an ornate and florid decorative case façade designed to attract attention in the tradition of most fairground equipment. Giacomo Gavioli patented the use of book music to play organs, which later became the basis of fairground organs.
Another inconvenience of cylinders was their size, which limited the number of tunes that could be played. Book music us a series of zig-zag folded sheets of cardboard in a folded book, which allowed mechanical arms to "feel" the holes and hence open the valves to allow compressed air to play the pipes of the organ. [3]
Ethel Smith (born Ethel Goldsmith; November 22, 1902 [1] [2] – May 10, 1996) was an American organist who played primarily in a pop or Latin style on the Hammond organ.In the 1940s, she had founded the Ethel Smith Music Corporation for the publication of songs sheets.
On April 26, 1941 Ray Nelson entertained fans that showed up early with a pipe organ behind the ballpark's grandstands. The Chicago Tribune notes that Nelson had to cut the music before the first ...
This arrangement encourages the organist to play the melody line on the upper manual while playing the harmony line, chords or bassline on the lower manual. On pipe organs each manual plays a specific subset of the organ's stops, and electric organs (e.g., Hammond organ) can emulate this style of play.
Honestly, we're so impressed by the dog's snowball rolling skills. He really had the hang of it. In fact, we think this pupper could probably make a whole bunch of snow people.