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Uploaded by on Jun 29, 2009

A 18-note barrel organ - or rather a push-up playing device - built of Meccano, performing on a Magnus electric chord organ.
The rubber tyres give a wonderful smooth action, but will not allow quick repetition. And because of sideways play in the keyframe, some keys keep slipping off the barrel pins.
But anyway - here it is. The tune is supposed to be the well-known hymn "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern".
NOTE THAT THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS.

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  • WOW!! MAde out of a Märklin (Maerklin) mechanical building set for kids (decades ago)!!! pretty rare to see these days!

  • @axel1973w

    Well, actually it is 1950s Meccano (Made in England) but I DO have some really old Maeklin stuff as well!

  • Wunderbar vilket Nr i Meccanokatalogen ?

  • Super Special Model n:o 99 ;-)

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  • Cool

  • Awesome! XD

  • Absolutely brilliant!

    On that program with James May on his favourite toys and super sizing them. I just was so depressed at seeing all these fanatics of meccano and never even taking it out the box.

    These toys really are made to be played with and to be enjoyed!

    Its not like they're going to break, ive got some of my old dads meccano and still play with it when i come home from uni aged 20, so thats 55 year old meccano, and it is still up to the JOB!!!

  • Brilliant job!

  • People are so clever! This is really wonderful. I've been wondering what Meccano was, and I see it's like the American Erector Seta I used to play with. Keep it up!

  • Excellent idea. There are church towers that have autimatic chiming barrels that play tunes on the bells throughout the day, this works along very similar lines

  • @GooglFascists The fan is part of the mechanism that turns the barrel

  • Is the fan supposed to keep that contraption COOL

    so it doesn't EXPLODE from playing those HOT LICKS?

  • Much fun and very clever.

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