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Bookmark or Share- Organ Grinder History - Bender MelodiesA Short History of Organ Grinders. Performers seeking to earn a living by entertaining “on the street” have been around since streets were invented. Men playing mechanical organs turned by a crank first appeared about 300 years ago. The early organs were very small with only a few notes.
- Organ Grinders And Street Music: A History of New York BuskingStreet criers, newsboys, and musicians outshouted or outplayed each other to attract the public’s attention. From the middle of the century onward, organ grinders were singled out for special scorn. The mobile barrel organ had become the most commonly heard instrument on New York’s pavements.
- Organ Grinders and Their Monkeys Once Entertained on DC ...In 1898, a resident named C.A. Snow got police to press cruelty charges an organ grinder for taking his monkey out in cold and damp weather to dance for coins. But others defended the performers.
- What Does the Organ Grinder's Monkey Parable Mean in Mank?David Fincher's new Netflix movie 'Mank' makes key reference to a parable about an organ grinder's monkey, and it works best when viewers understand it.
- Street organ - WikipediaA street organ (French: orgue de rue or orgue de barbarie) played by an organ grinder is a French automatic mechanical pneumatic organ designed to be mobile enough to play its music in the street. The two most commonly seen types are the smaller German and the larger Dutch street organ.
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