Interesting music from different areas for street organs.
Dutch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f02x_c3VoHw
One with animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztldQzdBDXY
Organs at the Great Dorset Steam Fair:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKj4kJ8NJWQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIezejvHTQE
Hope you enjoy .something different for us.
Last edited by wljmrbill; Mar-23-2010 at 06:44.
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I wish you the Best for each day, now and always.
Bill
Bill, the Dorset steam fair is held every year beginning of September for about 5 days about 18 miles from here, the organs were (and some still are) a feature of travelling fairs; many are now preserved and restored to their former glory and appear at venues like the Dorset Steam fair, shows and rallies for classic and vintage vehicles. Definitely a nostalgia kick for many of us.
http://www.gdsf.co.uk/
Cheers MIKE.
How many roads must a man walk down ... ... before he admits he's lost?
That's what we Americans call a calliope, and they are largely a curiosity around fairs and celebrations. Or carousels. Why should an organ need steam to operate???
They work on compressed air, when they were first introduced about 1880 the compressor could well have been driven by a steam engine, or some poor B****** hand pumping.
Thank you for that Bill, it was most interesting. They are amazing machines, someone I know has a steam organ and takes it to places like the Dorset steam fair.
Margaret
Glad everyone enjoyed them. I always thought they were neat.. Mike..must be nice to be able to see them in person... They are rare to hear around my neck of the woods now.
I wish you the Best for each day, now and always.
Bill
As a young child I remember being terrified of steam organs! When looking around a steam rally my mother would take the pushchair round so that I wouldn't go near them. I love pipe organs now though!
"The Wurzels" ???!!!
Did somebody mention "The Wurzels?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb63P...eature=related
Margaret
reminds me of some of the mountain music around here. is foot tapping however...LOL
I wish you the Best for each day, now and always.
Bill
Yes, you listen to music like that and your feet have a mind of their own.
Margaret
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