An entertaining article by Stephen Bicknell about the Dorset fair
and the fairground organs typically seen there is reproduced at
http://mmd.foxtail.com/Archives/Digests/199611/1996.11.06.12.html

Mr. Bicknell is both a writer of organ history and an organ architect.
Organ fans will enjoy his book, "The History of the English Organ",
(C)1996 Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0 521 55026 2 (hardback),
ISBN 0 521 65409 2 (paperback).  The author's personal web site is
http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~oneskull/

Robbie Rhodes