The Gavioli Fair Organ at Houghton Feast

White Bros 98 key mechanical organ playing a selection at the 2006 Houghton Feast

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[anglerfly]

houghton feast in codbridge, persian market

[Roylambeth]

@anglerfly No Houghton Feast in Houghton-le-Spring, County Durham. An annual event over several days every October. The organ has played there every year since about 1958

[Roylambeth]

Keep checking back on my videos. I am just back from The Great Dorset Steam Fair where I recorded several organs including White's Gavioli. I will be putting all the recordings up here as time permits

[anglerfly]

@Roylambeth I'm not an england expert, My family only comes from there. You mean this band organ is traveling?

[Roylambeth]

@anglerfly Yes it travels all over England including a 600 mile round trip to the The Great Dorset Steam Fair. It travels to over 20 events a year. By the way we do not call it a "Band Organ" we call it a "Fairground Organ". When it was built it was used on the centre truck of a fairground roundabout and later in a travelling bioscope show, finally being part of a scenic railway in the fairground at Barry Island near Cardiff in Wales

[jennythewren]

this books called " Singalong medley no1" and its a really heavy thick book aswell!