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n. A mechanical instrument on which a tune is played by the action of a revolving cylinder fitted with pegs or pins that open pipe valves supplied by a bellows.
This might be a bit of a long shot, but my thoughts on the matter (for what they are worth) are that you could use a large diameter piece of PVC or other building pipe/tubing for your drum (take your pick on material and size. It's your pro...
A revolving cylinder is fitted with pegs that open valves, permitting air to enter a set of organ pipes. Some larger ones have several sets of pipes and various couplers.
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It probably originated at the beginning of the 18th cent.
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Hi, Thank you for your answers. It's an expression used by a person in particular ("Needs must when the devil drives the barrel organ, however, as Charles so often says."); it doesn't seem to depend much on the context, that is ju...
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I am often asked this question, and I welcome the opportunity to clear up the confusion once and for all. The term 'Barrel Organ' is a misnomer. A Barrel Organ is actually a street piano with organ pipes on the front. Whereas a Barrel Piano...
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Some people wrongly call it a hurdy-gurdy - but a genuine hurdy-gurdy is a stringed instrument played by rotating a rosined wheel on the strings, individual notes being obtained by keys. What is usually called a barrel organ is in fact a ba...
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1. a musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs
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n a mechanical musical instrument from which predetermined music is produced by turning a handle played esp in former times by street musicians ...
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