[ Joyce Brite wrote:

> The "Pirates of the Caribbean" films are fantasy adventure and
> supposed to take place during the late eighteenth or early nineteenth
> century.  Could such an instrument have been in Singapore at that time?

I have a cabinet roller organ of John Langshaw which was made between
1772 and perhaps 1780.  This would fit quite well.  I would like to see
a clip of the scene and compare it with Ord-Hume's barrel organ
"encyclopedia."

Karl Petersen
Washington, Illinois