Another day a street musician regarded him curiously from behind a barrel organ which he was turning with the lifeless celerity of one without interest in the sounds created by the process.
In the distance a barrel organ became more and more distinct and as I drew nearer and the noise grew louder, I wanted to dance and sing.
On Thursday there is a handsome Italian with a barrel organ that bears in its belly the very latest and most popular tunes.
The same thing year after year, and the same sounds—the dismal barrel organs, and brazen instruments, and pipes, wailing, droning, booming.
The vision kept coming and coming, like the same tune played over and over on a barrel organ, and when he woke seemed to fill all the time he had slept.
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barrel organ
She has a magicalbarrelorganwhich she spends most of her first episode trying to tune.
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It has now become thebarrelorganof millionaires' opinions.
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The fragile nature of the paper rolls were a major obstacle to its popularity, leading to the development of its successor, thebarrelorgan.
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In 1839, an unnamed parishioner donated abarrelorganto the church, but its range of music was deemed inadequate.
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In 1891, thebarrelorganwas replaced by a pipe organ with two manuals and pedals.
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They hear abarrelorganand realize they need not stop it, because it no longer disturbs their father.
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Essential, traditional musical instruments in "levenslied" -music are the accordion and thebarrelorgan.
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Some also confuse thebarrelorganwith the steam organ or calliope.
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Since the music is hard-coded onto the barrel, the only way for abarrelorganto play a different set of tunes is to replace the barrel with another one.
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Traditional musical instruments such as the accordion and thebarrelorganare a staple of levenslied music, though in recent years many artists also use synthesizers and guitars.
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Pinning such barrels was something of an art form, and the quality of the music produced by abarrelorganis largely a function of the quality of its pinning.
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Musically, it is based around a simple melody which is embellished by a number of different instruments, including abarrelorganwith a collection of puppets on it.
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They are not organs of public opinion at all, but they are the barrel organs of the employers' opinion.
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Street barrel organs usually play 7 to 9 tunes, although small organs (usually the older ones) can play up to 15 tunes.
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During this period the streets are closed off and barrel organs or "orgues" fill the streets with mechanical music.
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