Barrel organ information

A barrel organ (also called roller organ or crank organ) is a French mechanical musical instrument consisting of bellows and one or more ranks of pipes...

The Barrel Organ ("Katarynka" in Polish) is an 1880 short story by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus. Mr. Tomasz (this is his given name, "Thomas" in English)...

Dutch street organ. The first descriptions of the street organ, at that time always a barrel organ owing to its use of a pinned cylinder (barrel) to operate...

fairground organ was developed. Eugene de Kleist of North Tonawanda, New York, was an early builder of such organs (also called "barrel organs") for use...

Barrel Organ Museum Haarlem (Dutch: Draaiorgelmuseum Haarlem) is a museum in Haarlem in the Netherlands. Next to the presentation of a variety of barrel...

present Barrel organ Dance organ Calliope Mechanical organ Orchestrion Organ grinder Stadler, Andrea (January 2006). "Limonaire Part 1". Carousel Organ. USA...

the water organ, since the 15th century, the water is also used as a source of power to drive a mechanism similar to that of the barrel organ, which has...

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...

The Flower of Old Japan (1903) and Poems (1904). Poems included "The Barrel-Organ". "The Highwayman" was first published in the August 1906 issue of Blackwood's...

The North Tonawanda Barrel Organ Factory was a street organ manufacturing company and building, located in North Tonawanda, New York. Started by expatriate...

The Nordenfelt gun was a multiple-barrel organ gun that had a row of up to twelve barrels. It was fired by pulling a lever back and forth and ammunition...

The Apollonicon was a self-acting barrel organ, built by the English Organ builders Flight & Robson in London and presented to the public the first time...

boxes, barrel organs and barrel pianos consisting of a barrel or cylinder with pins or a flat metal disc with punched holes; or mechanical organs, player...

organist and an organ-builder. Leaving organ cases to others, he specialised in the mechanics, in particular those of chamber barrel organs. He left his...

Moritat to be accompanied by a barrel organ, which was to be played by the singer. At the premiere, though, the barrel organ failed, and the pit orchestra...

Jakovsky. The word "sharmanka" (шарманка) is Russian for hurdy-gurdy or barrel-organ. Sharmanka was founded in St Petersburg in 1989 and based in Glasgow...

ribault, ribaudkin, infernal machine or organ gun, was a late medieval volley gun with many small-caliber iron barrels set up parallel on a platform, in use...

'Mammoth' is one of the very few pop singles to feature a barrel organ (or street organ). The organ, The Flamingo, was too big to get through the studio entrance...

made in the Netherlands, for instance in Dutch Sign Language and on barrel organ. Parodies of the song were dedicated to similar sounding locations and...

frequently confused with barrel organs, but are quite different instruments. The central element of the barrel piano is a wooden barrel covered in strategically...

dem Liede tanzen, das gerade auf der Walze steht. The world is just a barrel-organ which the Lord God turns Himself. We all have to dance to the tune which...

Ireland 328 "Barrel Organ" 20 December 2000 (2000-12-20) Po comes into Home Hill and says Eh-oh when a voice trumpet rises and plays barrel organ music before...