•It was my understanding that the organ arrived in 1894 at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk without any facade. I spent most of the day Sept. 10th, 2001, looking at the organ -- the sort of day that sticks out for a number of reasons. The organ was originally operated by a barrel. The bearing blocks a...

•> A large band organ is visible at the rear of the skating rink ... > http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2723/5754904205_1cdfa4707c_o.jpg Dear Mr. Davis, I just took a look at the photo link that Mr. Robbie Rhodes graciously found and appended to your recent Mechanical Music Digest post, and although I ...

•In music, Sforzando is a suddenly loud piano note or chord. Short but not necessarily staccato. It may sound like pizzicato, but Sforzando is not a pizzicato effect when used by pipe organs. It was used more in the early part of this century on pipe organs to mean all the stops on, or most of the s...

•Darren Willard wrote: > Is this the same instrument? If so, bravo! Dr. Ronald Hough > could really make it come to life! This was obviously a major > task to create. Yes, it is one and the same. I was the tall guy Dr. Hough had stand at the dedication in 1986. Thank you for your kind words. The org...

•For a couple of days the question "What's a Hurdy-gurdy?" has been discussed in MMD. Brian Thornton wrote in 020323 MMDigest: > It's basic construction is that of a bowed instrument. > A wooden wheel, turned by a crank, bows the strings from > underneath. Two sets of strings on the side of the whee...

•This song was obviously a hit in 1927/28. On YouTube you can find three versions of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_qoeW84F88 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkGt6AfyRtE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKeW5GZwod0 You may buy a copy of it, see https://www.zvab.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=303...

•I have inherited a BA Bremond Harpe Music Box. No 17095. It's got eight Airs on the play list. They are: 1. Faust - March et Choeur 2. Le Carnaval de Venise - Variations 3. Les Trompettes du Régiment - polka 4. Fantasten - Valse de Eikoff 5. Silver Threads among the gold 6. Les Grelots - Mazurka Ã...

•[ This is the first paragraph from an article at the web site of the [ retail business, Lark In The Morning: [ [ http://www.mhs.mendocino.k12.ca.us/MenComNet/Business/Retail/ [ Larknet/ArtHurdyGurdyHistory [ [ There's also a big web site about this stringed instrument at [ [ http://www.hurdygurdy.c...

•MEMUSI'98 -- Vienna International Me-chanical Musi-c Festival 1998 The traditional international annual meeting of friends of Mechanical Music will take place in Vienna from 3rd - 6th of September, mainly at the 'Boehmischer Prater' park and at some places in the city (Kaernter Strasse / Graben / S...

•Eliyahu Shahar wrote, in part: "What I learned years ago at Disneyland was that their carousel is a 'carousel' because all of the riders are on horses that go up and down." I have no doubt that that is what they told him, but if this is what Disneyland is telling their customers, then they are misi...