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    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...
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    music Dance organ: an organ that plays in a dance hall, ball room or cafe Fairground organ: an organ that plays on a fairground Mechanical organ Zeraschi...
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  • a series of pipes Fairground organ, an automatic mechanical organ designed to provide loud music in fairground settings Street organ, a mobile, automatic...
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    Calliope (music) (redirect from Steam organ)
    period carousels. It used organ pipes rather than steam whistles to produce its principal sounds. See also fairground organ. "Where did merry-go-rounds...
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    Wurlitzer (redirect from Wurlitzer organ)
    The fairground organ was developed. Eugene de Kleist of North Tonawanda, New York, was an early builder of such organs (also called "barrel organs") for...
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    barrel organ. Barrel Organ Museum Haarlem (Netherlands) Calliope (music) Player piano Dance organ Fairground organ Musical clock Music box Organ grinder...
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    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...
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    Orchestrion (category Pipe organ)
    It used steam whistles rather than organ pipes to produce its principal sounds. See also the similar fairground organ. The name "orchestrion" has also been...
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    thereafter. The park had a Mammoth Military Band Organ, also known as a Wurlitzer Style #160. The organ was installed in 1950. The park also added Louie...
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    installed in a new pavilion in the early 1990s. A fairground organ provides the carousel's music. The type of organ is unknown, but it plays Wurlitzer 150 rolls...
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  • 12, 2012. Barrel piano Barrel organ Componium Dance organ Fairground organ Musical clock Musical box Orchestrion Organ grinder Piano roll Player piano...
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    is intended for use indoors as dance organs tend to be quieter than the similar fairground organ. Dance organs were principally used in mainland Europe...
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    Book music (category Organs (music))
    commonly used medium for large instruments. Used extensively by fairground and street organ makers, book music was also used by Henri Fourneaux in 1863 in...
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  • film soundtrack. The film also included "She Loves You", played on a fairground organ; an orchestral version of "All My Loving"; and "Death Cab for Cutie"...
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  • release version/mix ends with a sudden keyboard "crash", followed by fairground organ music). The song begins solely with eight drum beats, before the keyboard...
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  • the choir, and how his whistle was replaced with steam organ pipes from the fairground organ on Mr Morgan's roundabout. There then followed two thirteen-episode...
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    so as to pluck the tuned teeth (or lamellae) of a steel comb. The fairground organ, developed in 1892, used a system of accordion-folded punched cardboard...
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    Charles Marenghi & Cie (category French pipe organ builders)
    Marenghi & Cie was a French fairground organ manufacturer. Charles Marenghi started his career working in the famous organ factory of Gavioli & Cie in...
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    carousel was built circa 1906–1909 with a traditional roll-operated fairground organ. It was relocated multiple times, most recently to Luna Park's Steeplechase...
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    rides for all ages and the atmosphere is completed with a number of fairground organs and a range of side stalls. The farm includes a wide range of vintage...
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  • music rolls encoding music to be played by player pianos, fairground organs, barrel organs and music boxes. The automatic flute player, which was invented...
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  • convoy passing through the area. However, an abandoned steam roller and fairground organ trailer are blocking the route, which threatens to plunge the convoy...
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    pavilion is also used to crown the official Apfelwein (Cider) Queen. Fairground organ Carousel Lottery Swing boat Bergen-Enkheim has two primary schools...
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    United States government imposed high import tariffs on both street and fairground organ importation. At this time only the French company of Gavioli had an...
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  • Gavioli (category Organ builders)
    Gavioli & Cie were a Franco–Italian organ builder company that manufactured fairground organs in both Italy and later France. Gavioli was founded in 1806...
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    to swing out concentrically as the carousel built up speed. Fairground organs (band organs) were often present (if not built-in) when these machines operated...
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    humorous dialogue between the brass ensemble and the fairground organ. His latest piece for street organ was Ffantasia V and was premiere at the Vale of Glamorgan...
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    fronted by the largest fairground organs, and these formed the entire public face of the show. A stage was usually in front of the organ, and dancing girls...
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    by this association. Laurendeau's version was also transcribed for fairground organs. In 1915 the New York Military Band recorded the march (Edison Records...
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  • visited a Victorian shop named Jack Donovan's that sold old toys. A fairground organ at the pier in Santa Monica, California and a puppet named Bimbo were...
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