barrel organs
Crank-turned street instruments
A barrel organ is a mechanical musical instrument that plays tunes when a hand crank rotates a barrel studded with pins.
The pins trigger pipes or metal tongues as the barrel turns.
Street musicians once commonly played barrel organs, sometimes with a monkey collecting coins.
The instrument is also called a hurdy-gurdy, though that term properly refers to a different instrument.
- pipeHollow conveyance channel
- hurdy-gurdyCranked wheel-friction chordophone
- calliopePressurized pipe instrument
- circus musicTent show accompaniment
- handlePart for gripping
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Wind instruments with ranks
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Large stringed keyboard instruments
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