A barrel organ (also called roller organ or crank organ) is a French [1] mechanical musical instrument consisting of bellows and one or more ranks of pipes housed in a case, usually of …

Programmed to play popular songs and dance tunes like waltzes and polkas, barrel organs were equipped with loud sounding wooden organ pipes to provide entertaining music outdoors. The …

Museum Speelklok’s oldest chamber barrel organ, intended for use in the home, is a hand-cranked cylinder organ from around 1760. It was made by the famous London organ builder …

Starting from the mid-18 th century barrel organs became popular among the street musicians, as they did not require great knowledge of music but at the same time truly delighted the …

Instead of having a keyboard played by an organist, a barrel organ is a mechanical instrument that has the musical notes encoded in an arrangement of metal pins in a wooden barrel or …

The barrel-organ, which in ancient times was called organistrum, and as of the 15th century viella or else lira mendicorum, is formed of a belly that can be made similar to the belly of the old viol …

Barrel organs provided dance music and even hymns for services in domestic chapels. Longman & Broderip, who made this example, traded under that name from 1776 until 1795, when they …

barrel organ, musical instrument in which a pinned barrel turned by a handle raises levers, admitting wind to one or more ranks of organ pipes; the handle simultaneously actuates the …

Different horn instruments encompass a wide range of brass and woodwind instruments known for their distinctive sounds and rich tones. These instruments vary in shape, size, and playing …

Modern basset horns can be divided into three basic types, distinguished primarily by bore size and, consequently, the mouthpieces with which they are played: