THE EQUIPMENT OF OUR BARREL ORGANS:
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- with punched tape control |
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- incl. 1 music roll (at the buyer’s option) | ||
THE FUNCTIONS OF OUR BARREL ORGANS:
The barrel organ is a mechanical musical instrument. It consists of a case which houses the hand-crafted wooden organ pipes, the bellows, the windchest and the playing mechanism.
The leather-covered bellows which generate the wind are operated by means of a crank or flywheel over a con rod. In reservoir bellows, the wind is stored, soothed and, by means of spring force, brought to a constant pressure. The pipework is situated above the windchest which contains a vast number of valves. Every valve is assigned one tone (one pipe). Those valves are activated by the play mechanism.
The punched tape on which the melody is stored is moved by means of rotary movements of the crank.
