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Unknown Music Box Tunes Identified
By Richard Dutton

[ Domenic DiBernardo wrote in 150121 MMDigest --

> I have three music boxes without the tune cards.  In hope that
> someone may identify the tunes we have created audio files at
> http://earlhaig.ca/marksdownloads/ 

I agree with two of Bernard Prindiville's identifications of
Domenic DiBernardo's unknown music box tunes (150121 MMDigest),

  First Box/Tune 4.mp3 = "The Blue Bells of Scotland" and
  Sublime Harmony/Sub 5.mp3 = "Listen to the Mockingbird",

but I think he meant to say that "The Last Rose of Summer" is
First Box/Tune 3.mp3, not Drum and Bell/Bell 3.mp3.

I also have a few more identifications:

First Box/Tune 2.mp3 is the traditional Scottish tune "Bonnie Dundee";

Sublime Harmony/Sub 3.mp3 is Johann Strauss II's "The Kiss Waltz";

Sublime Harmony/Sub 8.mp3 is the old hymn "The Sweet Bye and Bye"
(1868; words by S. Fillmore Bennett; tune by Joseph P. Webster);

Sublime Harmony/Sub 9.mp3 is one of the "Laura Waltzes" from Karl
Millocker's 1882 operetta "Der Bettelstudent" ("The Beggar Student").

For a paragraph of information about each of the latter three tunes,
please see my write-ups for 20-note roller organ cobs #209, 1 and 179,
respectively, in "Dutton's Handbook" on the website

  http://rollerorgans.com/ 
  http://cobs.rollerorgans.com/dutton/home 

Best regards,
Richard Dutton
rollerorgancobs@aol.com.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply]


(Message sent Tue 3 Feb 2015, 02:37:14 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

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