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    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...
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  • 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)...
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    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...
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    include the barrel organ and Orchestrion. These are controlled by mechanical means such as pinned barrels or book music. Little barrel organs dispense with...
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    Wurlitzer (redirect from Wurlitzer organ)
    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...
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    present Barrel organ Dance organ Calliope Mechanical organ Orchestrion Organ grinder Stadler, Andrea (January 2006). "Limonaire Part 1". Carousel Organ. USA...
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    Barrel Organ Museum Haarlem (Dutch: Draaiorgelmuseum Haarlem) is a museum in Haarlem in the Netherlands. Next to the presentation of a variety of barrel...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    The North Tonawanda Barrel Organ Factory was a street organ manufacturing company and building, located in North Tonawanda, New York. Started by expatriate...
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    Girolamo Frescobaldi (1953) Volumina (1961–62, revised 1966) Two Studies for Organ: Harmonies (1967) Coulée (1969) From Études pour piano, Book 2: No. VII:...
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    Nordenfelt gun (category Multi-barrel machine guns)
    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...
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    small reed organ directed from the clock and installed behind the riders on horse back. Because of changing in temperature the little organ must be regularly...
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    The chamber barrel organ by John Langshaw in the collections of Lancashire Museums is currently on display at the Judges' Lodgings museum in the city of...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    as well as music from the modern composer György Ligeti, and jaunty barrel organ music. Neumeier devotes the three sharply differing musical styles to...
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    large barrel organ which was built for the Princess of Wales. In 1764, he met the 8 year old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart who tried out the new organ. By 1766...
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  • '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...
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    Ribauldequin (redirect from Organ gun)
    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...
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    John Langshaw (category National Pipe Organ Register ID not in Wikidata)
    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...
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  • being a barrel organ) which the street performer plays throughout the film, as the informal meaning of the term 'Hurdy Gurdy' is a "barrel organ". The film...
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  • retired ballet instructor of the theatre, for a music box shaped like a barrel organ with the figure of a monkey. The auctioneer presents a repaired chandelier...
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  • Traditional musical instruments in levenslied music are the accordion and the barrel organ. Modern levenslied artists also use synthesizers and guitars. The songs...
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    sometimes mistakenly applied to a small, portable barrel organ that was frequently played by organ grinders and buskers. As late as 1913, Col. Edwin Emerson...
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    it remembered, however, that Verdi's melodies were once dismissed as barrel-organ fodder. The truth is that music that appeals immediately to a public...
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  • 01-01-2019 (January 1, 2019) 100 Afl. Green Iguana Dancers 01-01-2019 (January 1, 2019) 200 Afl. Brown Bird Barrel organ, drum 01-01-2019 (January 1, 2019)...
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    Serinette (category Organs (music))
    of musical instrument consisting of a small hand-cranked, pneumatic barrel organ. It appeared in the first half of the 18th century in eastern France...
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    "Les Patineurs" Barrel organ playing Problems playing this file? See media help. Les Patineurs ("The Ice Skaters", in German "Der Schlittschuhläufer-Walzer")...
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