Excellent restoration and a good exaple of how technically advanced British barrel-organ makers were, at that time, compared to their European contemporaries.
Does you barrel also have Rule Britiania and national Hymns including ( Germany & Portugal ?) as well as one xmas carrol? I love the arrangement of God Save the King... Very different from mine
@acoustics101: The music is the English national anthem - "God Save the King", once popular in the US, then given new words in the 1800's by Samuel Smith (My Country 'Tis of Thee), which was kind of naughty.
Was this made by Henry Holland too?
GermanStreetOrgan 1 day ago
how many keys does it have? Do I hear a glockenspeil ?
GermanStreetOrgan 4 months ago
Good organ grinding!
anglerfly 1 year ago
I think the tune is the charlie the unicorn bannana song.
anglerfly 2 years ago
@anglerfly
... No .... I've heard it plenty of times it's a religious song.
Wurlitzer157 1 year ago
@anglerfly
I saw charlie the Unicorn once, because people told me too and they TAKE these tunes, the candy mountain song is the Clarinet Polka.
Wurlitzer157 1 year ago
@Wurlitzer157 WHo told you to ?
anglerfly 1 year ago
@anglerfly
A couple of people in my school... It's ODD.
Wurlitzer157 1 year ago
Is the programmed tune original to the organ, i.e produced in 1800?
wks1978 2 years ago
Excellent restoration and a good exaple of how technically advanced British barrel-organ makers were, at that time, compared to their European contemporaries.
Tubemeister77 2 years ago
Magnifique.
baryton5 2 years ago
does that organ have stops
dominich4962 3 years ago
see 0:14.
waihoong11 2 years ago
Does you barrel also have Rule Britiania and national Hymns including ( Germany & Portugal ?) as well as one xmas carrol? I love the arrangement of God Save the King... Very different from mine
bridekirk 3 years ago
What a great period reference for baroque-early classical ornament!
ofacteur 3 years ago
exactly!
KawhackitaRag 3 years ago
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tyuru2 3 years ago
How is that going to let freedom ring?
wks1978 2 years ago
The tunes have a great similarity.
acoustics101 4 years ago
Very nice restoration job! Is the tune Charles Ives' Variations on America?
acoustics101 4 years ago
Sorry but I don't know. there is no way of identifying. On the lid of the instrument it just has tune names. This was just God save the King
johnfowler001 4 years ago
@acoustics101: The music is the English national anthem - "God Save the King", once popular in the US, then given new words in the 1800's by Samuel Smith (My Country 'Tis of Thee), which was kind of naughty.
EvilCensor 1 year ago
@EvilCensor YES...naughty indeed! I agree.
jjdsmayes 1 year ago
@acoustics101 The tune "America" is actually a direct use of the British national anthem "God save the queen".
wks1978 4 months ago