A street organ (French: orgue de rue or orgue de barbarie) played by an organ grinder is a French automatic mechanical pneumatic organ designed to be mobile enough to play its music in the street. The two most commonly seen types are the smaller German and …

This Crank Organ Digest Series article provides an up, close and biased profile of my Raffin 20/78 concert street organ. This instrument is the flag-ship of the superb line of 20-note organs built by Josef Raffin, Uberlingen, Germany. It is without doubt one of the most versatile 20-note organs available today.

Contrary to popular belief the origins of what we now call the Dutch street organ are not lying in Holland1 at all, not even in the Netherlands. In the early days, before about 1900, the concept of a Dutch street organ as it is known today did not yet exist.

We tune and repair hand-turned street organs by modern makers such as Raffin, Deleika, Hofbauer, Verbeeck and Prinsen. We also carry out full overhauls including re-leathering bellows, giving an ailing organ a new lease of life.

Street Organs are the devices played by organ grinders. They were generally considered more of a nuisance than a pleasure by many people, not only due to their abundance in major cities, but also due to the repetitive nature of their repertoire.

Terry Bender performs as an Organ Grinder with his German Street Organs at outdoor outdoor events in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington DC.

A street organ, like a church or cinema organ, may well have different sounding sets of pipes and a method of bringing them into play. These different sounding pipes are held in ranks. You bring them into play by using register stops.

2020年5月3日 · The Schoeppner’s organ has been traced to its beginnings in Belgium as a 1910 dance hall orchestral organ. After World War I, it was converted to a smaller, but more mobile, street organ that roamed the streets of Rotterdam, Holland, until 1938.

Waterpoorter entitled “The Grand Gavioli Organ.” The centerfold reveals a closeup of this freshly restored and well-maintained European Street Organ. Special thanks to Dr. William Murphy, Jr. for pro-viding information plus a picture of his organ; and …

2024年4月1日 · Join Tony Gangi, featured on WCVB TV, as he describes how the hand-cranked street organ was a key part of Italian culture, especially in the Boston area during the early days of Italian immigration to the United States.