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MechanicalMusicTravels
United Kingdom
Registrace 23. 11. 2015
A channel for all lovers of mechanical music. Join me as I visit and document the instruments featured at events and collections. Featured on my channel are Mechanical Organs, Orchestrions, Player Pianos and more.
For older recordings and footage of mechanical organs, please check out my second account (MechanicalMusicRecordings).
For older recordings and footage of mechanical organs, please check out my second account (MechanicalMusicRecordings).
Gebr. Bruder model 107 fairground organ - The Grange / July 2024
I was very glad to see this organ last weekend, having not heard it for the best part of 10 years when it was located at the old museum in Cotton - it has only just come over to the Grange, in the past few months. Undoubtedly one of the best Bruders in the UK! A bit of a shame I recorded so little footage of it...
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Losche + Kuhl & Klatt orchestrions - The Grange / July 2024
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Two orchestrions from Jonny Ling's collection, a Kuhl & Klatt xylophone piano and a Losche converted to play O-Rolls. Videos filmed on Saturday the 6th of July 2024. ~Tracklist~ 0:00 ? 1:18 Selection from "Carousel"
49 keyless Gavioli replica fairground organ - Thursford Steam Gala 2024
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Martin Ivatt's 49kl replica Gavioli made a somewhat surprise return appearance at this year's Gala day, the organ's last prior outing was in 2019 and since then it has been worked on/repainted and is now presented in a larger trailer. Apologies for the occasional raindrop on the camera lens - there was a number of torrential rain showers throughout the day! Recorded on the 07/07/2024. ~Tracklis...
White's 98 key Mammoth Gavioli fairground organ - Thursford Steam Gala 2024
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I realise this organ has been featured a lot on my channel these last couple of months, but for good reason - I can't get enough of its perfect playing! Enjoy an additional half an hour of footage of it at the Thursford Steam Gala day, perhaps the first time the organ has ever been to Norfolk. Please excuse all the rain, it was a rather miserable day weather-wise. Recorded 07/07/2024. ~Tracklis...
The 98 key Gondola Gavioli fairground organ - Thursford Steam Gala 2024
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The ex. Percy Coles Gondola Gavioli (sometimes affectionately known as the "Gons") filmed during the 2024 Thursford Steam Gala Day on the 7th of July. The organ has obviously been worked on as it was sounding superb, and the cymbal has finally been fixed. Another recent repair was that of the tambourine in the centre, which I don't think has worked in decades! As you might have noticed, some bo...
98 key Marenghi organ - Thursford Steam Gala 2024
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Some more from this wonderful organ filmed on the 7th of July 2024. With thanks to Bob Ince on the keyframe for digging out a few old classics! I tried experimenting with the video's colour settings, although throughout 3/4 of the video the organ is bathed in a rather ghastly purple glow! ~Tracklist~ 0:00 Raymonde Overture 6:38 My Sweetie Went Away 9:49 The Two Nightingales 13:21 Old Comrades
101 key Hooghuys concert organ - Thursford Steam Gala 2024
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Two books played on the museum's 101 key Hooghuys - recorded during the Thursford 2024 Steam Gala Day on Sunday the 7th of July. ~Tracklist~ 0:00 "En Suivant La Musique" - Medley 7:44 La Petite Valse
84 keyless Wellershaus fairground organ - Thursford Steam Gala 2024
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The one and only Thursford Wellershaus playing during the July Steam Gala day on Sunday the 7th. With thanks to Bob Ince on the keyframe, who picked out what is perhaps the best book on the organ, "Im Reiche Der Venus". Apologies for the occasional talking in the background.
112 keyless Carl Frei concert organ - Thursford Steam Gala 2024
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Another year, another Steam Gala down... Opening up this year's Thursford series of videos is of course the excellent 112kl Carl Frei concert organ, originally a 101 key Mortier rebuilt from a semi-derelict wreck by Mr. Frei, and sounding as good as always. Filmed on the 7th of July 2024. ~Tracklist~ 0:00 Alte Zeiten Potpourri 13:02 Trompeten-Stuckchen
White's Mammoth Gavioli fairground organ, Part 2 - SCOF 2024
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Tom Mayhew's superb 98 key Gavioli ("White's Mammoth Gavioli") filmed at the Southern Counties Organ Festival in Devizes, with a mixture of footage from both Saturday and Sunday - I'm afraid some of you will have to help me with the tune titles! The organ was playing to perfection over the weekend. Sorry about the occasional wind interference. ~Tracklist~ 0:00 Juarez March 3:27 The Umbrella Man...
46 keyless Harris fairground organ - SCOF 2024
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Chris Stephen's lovely little 46 keyless Harris organ playing at the Southern Counties Organ Festival on Sunday the 2nd of June 2024. ~Tracklist~ 0:00 One Summer Night 2:46 Lonesome and Sorry 6:23 Talking to the Moon 8:25 The Night They Invented Champagne 9:39 The Love Parade///Dream Lover
52 key Street Organ/Draaiorgel "De Impala" - SCOF 2024
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Hendrik Kaper's 52 key draaiorgel "De Impala", built by Cas Hendrickx in 1998, filmed playing at the Southern Counties Organ Festival in Devizes on the 1st of June. This organ was the festival's only international visitor, having come all the way from the Netherlands for the event! ~Tracklist~ 0:00 ? 2:18 Astronauten-Marsch 4:50 Ademloos Door de Nacht 7:35 Ain't That a Kick in the Head 9:29 Wei...
52 key Verbeeck organ - SCOF 2024
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Fred Knapp's 52 key Verbeeck organ filmed during the 20th anniversary Southern Counties Organ Festival in Devizes on the 1st of June 2024. I didn't get to hear this organ the previous year as its blower had packed up! I would have recorded some more footage of the organ but subsequently forgot and spent the whole evening listening to Whites' Gavioli instead... ~Tracklist~ 0:00 Tritsch-Tratsch P...
42 key Van Den Broek street organ "De Ijzeren Heintje" - SCOF 2024
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The ex. Graham Spencer 42 key Draaiorgel "De Ijzeren Heintje", filmed at the Southern Counties Organ Festival on the 2nd of June 2024. Although not a particularly large organ it was still quite nice to listen to. Sorry about all the cacophony in the background! ~Tracklist~ 0:00 Buckle Down, Winsocki 1:33 Forever and Ever 3:27 Nico Haak Medley (Honkie Tonkie Pianissie//Foxie Foxtrot) 6:41 Daar i...
Sunday Organ Recital - White's 98 key Mammoth Gavioli Fairground Organ
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A complete and (mostly) unedited video of the traditional Sunday Organ Recital held at the Southern Counties Organ Festival in Devizes, on Sunday the 2nd of June at two in the afternoon. What better way to celebrate the organ's 70th anniversary in preservation than to hold a spectacular concert, especially with the organ playing in absolutely top form! I have tried to do the organ as much justi...
30 keyless Chiappa & 40 key Gravendael organs - Shrewsbury Organ Festival 2024
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30 keyless Chiappa & 40 key Gravendael organs - Shrewsbury Organ Festival 2024
52 key Gasparini fairground organ - Shrewsbury Organ Festival 2024
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52 key Gasparini fairground organ - Shrewsbury Organ Festival 2024
72 key Frei/Duwyn street organ "De Stolwijker" - Shrewsbury Organ Festival 2024
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72 key Frei/Duwyn street organ "De Stolwijker" - Shrewsbury Organ Festival 2024
Downs' 89 key Gavioli galloper organ - Saffron Walden Common 2024
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Downs' 89 key Gavioli galloper organ - Saffron Walden Common 2024
84 key Mortier organ - Saffron Walden Crank-Up 2024
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84 key Mortier organ - Saffron Walden Crank-Up 2024
56 key Pluer organ "Het Kleine Juweel" - Saffron Walden Crank-Up 2024
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56 key Pluer organ "Het Kleine Juweel" - Saffron Walden Crank-Up 2024
89 key Whitehead fairground organ - Saffron Walden Crank-Up 2024
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89 key Whitehead fairground organ - Saffron Walden Crank-Up 2024
121 key Decap dance organ "England's Pride" - April 2024
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121 key Decap dance organ "England's Pride" - April 2024
92 key Decap dance organ "Jeanneke" - April 2024
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92 key Decap dance organ "Jeanneke" - April 2024
92 key Anton Pluer street organ / draaiorgel "De Hartenvrouw" - April 2024
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92 key Anton Pluer street organ / draaiorgel "De Hartenvrouw" - April 2024
The 112 key Preston Gavioli / "Gavioliphone" fairground organ - April 2024
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The 112 key Preston Gavioli / "Gavioliphone" fairground organ - April 2024
Ruth model 36 fairground organ ("The Golden Ruth") - April 2024
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Ruth model 36 fairground organ ("The Golden Ruth") - April 2024
72 key Decap dance organ "Le Progrès" - April 2024
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72 key Decap dance organ "Le Progrès" - April 2024
89 key Marenghi fairground organ - Amersham, March 2024
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89 key Marenghi fairground organ - Amersham, March 2024
89 key Gavioli fairground organ (ex. Bailey) - Amersham, March 2024
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89 key Gavioli fairground organ (ex. Bailey) - Amersham, March 2024
I remember your old video of this instrument back then when it was at Cotton it was in a trailer. Glad Johnny moved it from there and into The Grange. It's a real shame there's not many vids of this organ and it sounds so gorgeous! I really like the conductor as well.
@@HarryYT22 Thank you Harry! It was great to see and hear the organ again after so long. Unfortunately it wasn't played quite as much as I would have liked due to the roll finishing and Jonny not being around to help us rewind it! Next time I'm there I will try and film it some more, it's definitely one of the best German fairground organs in the UK.
Gorgeous sound.
@@Wheels-Wheels-Wheels Indeed, very balanced too, it has all the makings of a Gebr. Bruder!
0:00 this could be "das alpenhorn"? The intro at least is the same
@@unforgettable256 Thanks - I've taken a listen to it, and whilst it sounds very similar I think it's a different tune. I'm sure I've heard this tune before in a medley of traditional German "Landler" songs on another organ, I'd love to know the title!
It's playing well, good to see it's with Johnny
This is either a model 107 or 109 as it's 52 keyless, a 111 is 43 keyless.
@@PeterMackett Thanks Peter.
Sehr schön spielend, Super trompeten! 👌
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I’ve always found this instrument super interesting, it’s very well made, even if it’s really big for a 48 type instrument. Not sure how the piccolos are connected into the scale or what the 49th key is for
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Sounds like someone has been copying the repertoire of the ex. Miller 110 key Gavioli!
@@PeterMackett My thoughts exactly!
I wonder if the actual books were copied and modified or if it was done by ear with recordings!
@@christiantedesco1477 It would be interesting to know...
This is a nice decent instrument what I like the most is the figures have names. It's looking a lot more brighter after a repaint! I remember an old video of this instrument on Graham Spencer's CZcams channel where it was playing The Carousel Waltz.
Yes that's right! I can remember seeing this organ at quite a lot of local events when I was younger, it was good to see it again.
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Beautiful carousel, beautiful music.
Quite an achievement to make a recording in the rain!
@@jorybennett5932 It's never easy!
Thank You!
@@johnchambers6150 Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video!
Yes. did tom garidiner operate it
@@peterpaget8597 No, Jory Bennett was on keyframe duty!
Ive been trying to play this on my piano after school off the bus in blackberry street when I feel happy about being it like this
Really sounding great here, definitely similar sounding to the late Trager’s 110, makes sense with their common lineage. Wonder how the tambourine works, I would have guessed it played with the castanets, but this instrument is full of technical quirks like the violins playing permanently without registration and the piston playing with the clarinets instead of the saxophone!
@@christiantedesco1477 I've heard the tambourine works on its own key but only on the Verbeeck books - on other books it seems to be activated by register changes, quite unusual!
@@MechanicalMusicTravels its a miracle any non Verbeek books work at all, with all of its registration quriks!
Wow! It sounds fantastic here! Glad it has a new cymbal I remember in your last video the cymbal was working but was very quiet. The ride looks really fun too! I always like it running whilst the organ is playing.
Same cymbal, wind trunk pushed back on!
@@HarryYT22 Yes, a few things have been fixed! Even the gondolas seem to have a new speed control and are almost running at their old speed.
If you heard it in the 1970s you'd think it was a different organ,sounded nothing like it does now.Its as good now as was back 42yrs ago when Bob Ince and Tim Blythe overhauled it.
@@RaggyAl1971 Wrong! Tim Blyth restored the organ, and up until Stuart Dobbs took over, l maintained it!
@@RaggyAl1971 Absolutely, it's changed a lot since then, for the better!
Have you ever thought of doing Bressingham again? Andy who works on the organ is really nice and if you had any track requests I’m sure he’d play them. It’s mainly pop songs these days. He said he was really glad to replace Mother Kelly’s Doorstep with the pop music.
@@SachaCross-vl5lq It would be nice to return there one day, I know the organ was taken apart and worked on a year or two ago so it would be good to see it again!
Sounds so much better
Yes. I Want to see her in the condition. last i Time saw it was in terrible state. the cymbal didnt play
I'd like to teach the world to sing is a Prinsen arrangement I think,Puppet on a string is a James Tiller one.
@@RaggyAl1971 Thanks, I believe that's correct.
I've recently been donated a cassette featuring a few of the lesser played books,will post a few on my channel soon.She sounds in great order thanks to the organ builder who looks after the organs there.
@@RaggyAl1971 Yes, Stuart's doing a fine job keeping this organ in top form. I hear the Wellershaus and De Leeuwin are due to be worked on soon.
Yes,the bellows are being overhauled on the Welleshaus and the street organ I believe.@@MechanicalMusicTravels
@@RaggyAl1971 that's good news, I enjoy listening to the wellershaus.
Terrible arrangement of "Parade of the Tin Soldiers", half the tune is missing!
@@PeterMackett Odd, isn't it! I suspect the book is damaged and most of it is missing...
@@MechanicalMusicTravels Yes. if the book is damaged. it could be done with being recut
You could say the same about most arrangements of Mambo No 5, where it’s only the chorus and not the verses.
This book was made specially for a spot during the Christmas show, when the dancers exited the extension stage via the gondolas, thus its shortness!
@@RobertInce-nl1oi Okay I Didnt know that
👍...slap some keyboards and pedalboard on and you got a fantastic theater organ!
I wish they would put the castanets on their own key instead of connecting them to the snare drum, there is a separate key for them in the 98 key scale.
With only 92 keys in the frame, this is not possible!
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3:15 Oh dear...
I like La Petite Valse I always picture couples dancing to that tune whenever I hear it.
@@HarryYT22 Yes I know what you mean! It's a very stereotypical waltz tune...
Really enjoyed this one. I quite like the Overture it was playing at the start I might've heard that tune before and I had always wanted to know the name of it until now.
Thanks Harry! The first overture is a good piece, not too many organs seem to have it in their repertoires. You might be familiar with it as it was featured in one of the two Decca LPs produced of this very organ back in the mid 1960's!
I've got a 1962 recording of this organ.
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Experience joyeuse!😊
@@jorybennett5932 Merci Jory 🤣
It's the 1st time head the "En Suivant La Musique" - Medley before.
@@musicmachinesuk Same here, these longer selection books are seldom played usually.
Those Violins were really on song for La Forza Del Destino overture. Thanks for these superb recordings.
My favourite organ in the collection, for repertoire, and one of the few 98-key organs which actually uses all 98 keys. Thank-you.
You're very welcome - one of the best 98's around, its original character as a 110 still manages to shine through!
I first heard this way back in 1979 at one of the Christmas Carol concerts.
@@RaggyAl1971 It's a great book, one of my personal favourites on this organ.
0:00 "En suivant la musique", medley published by Fr.Salabert
@@bietebouwer Thank you Bjorn, I hadn't realised it was a published score, but that makes a lot of sense - I can easily picture it being played by a band.
@@MechanicalMusicTravels I assume Schollaert knew it from the time he was a music director. He arranged it also for 57-key Hooghuys - that's where I found the origin :)
@@bietebouwer It's also on a record of Shaharazad. Have a look on Discogs, look for MALS 1149 (Marble Arch), as the first track on the B side. :)
@@DoccieDraaiorgel Ah yes, I forgot about that!
Thanks for the recording. 🙂👍I've never had the chance to visit Thursford, although I did meet George Cushing on a number of occasions, mostly at events around Lincolnshire. He was a man with good foresight and who kept some superb organs in good playing order and in the UK. Always missed. My favourite organ in the collection is the Percy Cole's 98-key Gavioli, for its repertoire (I have a copy of a recording which Phil Upchurch made of some of the older books of music, immediately after a rebuild), but this Carl Frei/Mortier has a better sound; singing to you and not shouting at you like a Gavioli.
@@RWBHere Thanks for commenting - unfortunately I never had the chance to meet George but I've heard he was a nice gent! I've got a video of the Gondola organ coming in a few days, sadly not many of the old books were played...
Also since this organ appears to be portable on a trailer can imagine serenading all up and down I-95!
Many people over here hope that it never goes to the USA. It's one of the best organs in Britain.
@@RWBHere good that this is in Britain-didn’t know where is was.
Really a nice organ-always liked this one. Playing some really good classic organ songs. Like the drummer ladies and the conductor.
Wonderful to see this as featured on the DECCA record I bought about fifty years ago. Organ truck & presentation are delightful. I imagine the top of the carved precenium folds down followed by the lights & roof of the organ truck. Exquisite !
@@MICHAELWEBBER-cu5eu Thank you! Sadly it isn't playing quite as spectacularly as it did on those old records but plans are in motion to get it back to its old self... With regards to the truck, I imagine that's how it works but since the organ hasn't left Thursford for decades I've never seen the organ being packed away!
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German Fair Organs always have such a beautiful sound. Shame this one sounds like it's slightly suffering from air loss sometimes but still sounds really nice!
@@HarryYT22 indeed - this organ especially is excellently voiced, and is probably the best Wellershaus still in existence! The bellows are due to be releathered next year so hopefully the organ will sound much better following that.
My favourite waltz!, always sounds best on this organ, still suffering air loss at times and the book definitely needs recutting, arranged by Carl Frei, there is another fantastic waltz on this organ, "Neues Leben" which i have never heard played live, only on one of the records made of it.
@@PeterMackett I've never heard Neues Leben either, I know quite a few of the books on this organ desperately need recutting with some not even playable any more so it might fall into that category.
@@MechanicalMusicTravels Last time i was there i looked in the back and there are only a few books with it, there was a small pile in one corner so it may be there as they all looked a bit rough, such a shame as it's a fantastic organ!
The full version always sounds better than the edited version on the old Decca LP.She's playing well too,its just one of its books that needs recutting.Thanks for posting Lucas.
@@RaggyAl1971 Thanks Alan, you're welcome - hopefully the organ will be playing even better next year as the feeders are due to be releathered.
The bellows are being done as well.@@MechanicalMusicTravels
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@@peterpaget8597 Fairly, lol!
@@MechanicalMusicTravels I Will be there next year
Nice that you've been back to the Thursford collection. Their collection of organs are fantastic! Hope they were all sounding well.
@@HarryYT22 Thanks Harry, it's always nice to be back there after another year. Everything was playing pretty well, more or less the same as last year, although it sounded like the Gondola organ had had some work done to it. Allegedly the two dance organs were back up and running, but I didn't get a chance to hear them!
@@MechanicalMusicTravels that Carl Frei is a stunning instrument. Sounds so well maintained! I quite like those large drum playing ladies at either side in sync with the percussion.
@@MechanicalMusicTravels I Was going to come on sunday but my car battery failed
@@peterpaget8597 That's a shame, I have reason to believe that next year's FOPS AGM will be held at Thursford, so perhaps that will be another good chance to go.
@@MechanicalMusicTravels Thanks Lucas I Will be there