How To Use barrel organ In A Sentence
- But in Victorian times it suffered a slow demise, as barrel organs and harmoniums replaced the bands, and a surpliced choir in the chancel tended to supersede the old gallery singers, bringing a return to conventional art music.
- Tony Coia's grandfather, Massimino, came to Britain from Cassino with his wife in 1886 and bought a barrel organ.
- Secular barrel organs varied widely in size, ranging from domestic instruments little bigger than a musical box to the orchestrions designed for public display, for example Maelzel's panharmonicon and Winkel's componium.
- All the while there is soft or merry music coming from violins, accordions, barrel organsor small orchestras of street musicians, some of them in gaily colored apparel.
- Twinkly lights festooned the rides and side-stalls, the smell of hot dogs, popcorn and candyfloss permeated the air and best of all, they had all the old rides with hurdy-gurdies and barrel organs!
- Tony Coia's grandfather, Massimino, came to Britain from Cassino with his wife in 1886 and bought a barrel organ.
- Larger versions, like the barrel organs and orchestrions, filled the same role as the gramophone, which superseded them, and has since been supplanted in its turn by the CD player.
- A chime of bells, normally in a tower, played either from a keyboard or mechanically by a barrel (like that of a barrel organ, but larger) or similar device.
- The smallest barrel organs were tiny instruments called sérinettes or ‘bird organs’, designed to make easy the constant repetition needed to teach canaries to sing favourite airs.