How to be a Barrelorgan Music Maker / Noteur #02

TVGreen's Time Machine presents "The Barrelorgan Music Maker"
from the series "Claim to Fame"

Street organ music was often sentimental. Songs that were full of life's and love's impressions. But it was also music that had a touch of heavy rhythm - and people of every period have enjoyed that.
The advantage of organ books over earlier methods of programme storage is easy to guess. one could make books as thick as one liked and thus determine how long a piece of music would last. other musical instruments were limited by the single rotation of the wooden roll or metal cylinder. The song was finished after but one turn of the roll.

The composer of the music usually remained anonymous. He didn't etch his name into the metal. The creation was saved but the creator remained an unknown. Signing a disc was unheard of. it just wasn't done. The work has now become that of the specialist. It began here with the carillons. Sometime around 1350 the automatic bell towers began ringing for medieval folk.

"You can compare the old automatic music machines to today's computers," continues Tom with his history. "Actually carillonneurs play a preset programme. The 100-metre high Dom tower in Utrecht, for example, dates from 1666 and has a playing mechanism with 66,000 programme points. More than enough to play a new tune for months."

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Music title Soporific, Organ Filler, Lift Motif, by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0" ©

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[Hairbanger24]

At first I thought that this was going to be a waste of time. It was both intertaning and informative. Thanks.