In Organ to Grind, after finding one of three Dutch street organs, one team member had to run the machine while the other asked for tips.
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Located in a previous church that still includes wall paintings dating back to the 1500s, the museum displays carillon clocks, music boxes, player pianos and street organs.
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Pre World War I, street organs were hand cranked and easily portable, but fell out of tune and repair due to the undulations of the cobbled Dutch streets.
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Slightly smaller than the semi-trailer-sized fairground organ the Dutch street organ is nevertheless able to produce enough volume to be heard easily on a busy street corner.
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His aversions were street organ-players and itinerant hawkers, none of whom were allowed to exercise their callings in the borough in the period during which his will was law.
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In " Sharmanka ", teams had to find one of three street organs, and then one team member had to run the machine while the other asked for tips.
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Animals that perform trained routines or " acts " for human entertainment include fleas in flea circuses, dolphins in dolphinaria, and monkeys doing tricks for an audience on behalf of the player of a street organ.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, large barrel organs intended for use as fairground organs or street organs were often converted, or newly built, to play music rolls or book music rather than barrels.
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In many towns in Europe the barrel street organ was not just a solo performer, but used by a group of musicians as part of a story-telling street act, together with brightly coloured posters and sing-along sessions.
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The first descriptions of the street organ, at that time always a barrel organ owing to its use of a pinned cylinder ( barrel ) to operate levers and play notes, can be found in literature as early as the late 18th century.
