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Barrel organ   /bˈærəl ˈɔrgən/   Listen
Barrel organ

noun
1.
A musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs.  Synonyms: grind organ, hand organ, hurdy-gurdy, hurdy gurdy, street organ.






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"Barrel organ" Quotes from Famous Books



... To-day the missionary, mounted perhaps on a humble bicycle, may meet his Maori parishioner driving the most expensive kind of motor car. Kendall acquired great influence over the native mind by exhibiting a barrel organ which he had brought from England: if he had arrived to-day he might have been invited to listen to a selection of modern airs from a ...
— A History of the English Church in New Zealand • Henry Thomas Purchas

... and one of hay (for Clarissa and the shaggy phantom) and brought them to the roulotte upon his back. The night was mild, and so he made Yvonne's bed and his own within the enclosure, and amid a babel of sounds, above which the barrel organ of the carousel near by wheezed tremulously, they dropped upon the blankets, dead tired, ...
— Madcap • George Gibbs

... Here we gained admittance to the little church, an interesting edifice, noted for its sumptuous monuments to commemorate the Fauconbridge and Belasyse families, and for its being the scene of Sterne's curacy. A small barrel organ now graces its gallery, which responded to the morning and evening service in Yorick's day. On prying about the belfry we discovered an old helmet, with the gilding on it still discernible, which we at first supposed to be intended as a decoration ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, - Vol. 12, Issue 328, August 23, 1828 • Various



Words linked to "Barrel organ" :   hurdy-gurdy, hand organ, musical instrument, street organ, music, hurdy gurdy, grind organ, instrument



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