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A Street organ is a mechanical organ designed to play in the street. The operator of a street organ is called an organ grinder. A Mechanical organ is an organ that is self playing, rather than played by a musician. ...
An Austrian organ grinder (locally called Werklmann) with his paper-roll driven Berlin style barrel organ in Vienna The organ grinder was a musical novelty street performer of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century, and refers to the operator of a street organ. ...
The two main types are the smaller German style and the larger Dutch street organ.
In the UK, street organ is often used to refer to a mechanically played piano like instrument. This is incorrect, and such instruments are called a Barrel piano. A short grand piano, with the top up. ...
A Faventia barrel piano A barrel piano (also known as a roller piano) is a forerunner of the modern player piano. ...
German style street organ German style street organs are usually operated by a music roll or pinned barrel. A Music Roll is used to operate a Mechanical organ or Orchestrion and contains the music to be played. ...
A barrel organ player in Vienna, Austria. ...
A street organ player in Vienna, Austria. Download high resolution version (480x898, 89 KB)Barrel organ player in Vienna, Austria in 2002. ...
| A street organ player in Warnemünde, Germany. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 510 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (680 × 800 pixel, file size: 286 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Beschreibung: Drehorgel - Leierkasten Fotograf: Darkone, 5. ...
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Dutch street organ
The Dutch street organ Australia Fair. Viewed from the front on a street corner in Sydney, Australia.
Rear of Australia Fair. Note fanfold book playing through reader in center and spinning belt drive. Dutch street organs (unlike the simple street organ) are large belt-driven organs that play book music. They may be equipped with pipes, horns and even percussion instruments. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2272 × 1704 pixel, file size: 1. ...
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Book Music is the European version of making mechanical music medium for organs in Europe and it is actually similar to piano rolls, but book music is produced by thick cardboard, with perforated holes, and it is presented and played in a folded zig-zag style. ...
Slightly smaller than the semi-trailer-sized fairground organ the Dutch street organ is nevertheless able to produce enough volume to be heard easily on a busy street corner. Modern Dutch street organs are frequently trailer mounted, and sized for towing behind a pickup or other light truck. Fairground organ A fairground organ is a pipe organ which is not played from a keyboard, but rather by mechanical means such as music roll or book music, and designed originally to be used on a fairground or in the United States on a carousel or in a dance-hall...
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External links - Dutch street organs, a brief summary
- Musique Mécanique ~ THE HISTORY OF MECHANICAL MUSIC
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