Alan Pell Music 31-Keyless 'Steam' Organ

This is a beautiful hand-turned 'steam' organ built by Alan Pell Music and filmed at the 2010 Lincolnshire Steam Spectacular. Alan has very cleverly added a small boiler and chimney to this organ to produce the steam for this 'steam' organ - the name people incorrectly gave to mechanical organs that they thought used to use steam to make the music. This was slightly correct, as in the past before electricity was invented, a small steam engine was used to provide the rotary force to drive the organ's flywheel that was then used to drive the cardboard music through its key frame, and also to rotate the crankshaft that worked the bellows that produced the air that was blown through its pipes and pnuematic action and thus making the sounds that together then produced the music.

This 31-keyless organ that Alan Pell is seen here playing in this video, uses perforated paper roll music and has bellows. Alan is hand-turning the organ and providing the rotary force himself instead of an electric motor or steam engine that could be used instead to provide the rotary motion at the rear of the organ. The organ's melody registers are manually controlled by means of 3 brass knobs on the right side (as viewed from the front) of the organ and these are connected to what are known as 'sliders' and these are either pulled out to turn on a register/rank of pipes, or pushed back in to silence it as the music plays.

This video is owned by Totally Fair Organs Video Productions.

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[IanPostlethwaite]

wow a real 'steam' organ LOL i suppose thats one way to reinforce the general publics theory that all organs are steam!! hehe

[Totallyfairorgans]

@IanPostlethwaite If you think this 'steam' organ's good, you want to see Alan's 'barrel' organ...

/watch?v=DX4btaEBcKQ

[anglerfly]

0:00 What Do you do with the drunkin' sailer. 0:23 Anchors Aweigh!

[Totallyfairorgans]

@anglerfly The first song's correct title is "What Should We Do With The Drunken Sailor?", but you were very close though!

[GermanStreetOrgan]

It is NOT powerd by steam. it is called a "STREET ORGAN"

[IanPostlethwaite]

@Totallyfairorgans I have seen his 'barrel' organ and other wonderful creations many times at the GDSF - brilliant. thanks for posting

[anglerfly]

@Totallyfairorgans I spelt it wrong to make it look like how they would write it ( Not Really )