Frati & Company Barrel Organ Built in Berlin Germany circa 1895
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Frati & Company Barrel Organ Built in Berlin Germany circa 1895.
Converted in the 1930's by the B.A.B. Organ Company to play their 48-key paper rolls.
This Frati Barrel Organ is played at festivals and is always enjoyed by everyone. It is continually being maintained and restored.
Beautiful sound , if I owned it I would have to get it out & about to let people see & hear the nostalgia
Yes, it would be show-stopper in a parade.
"Under the Double Eagle"
That will always be one of my favourites
Perfect carousel music.
It would also be a lot of fun if they put a little smoke (from those cold nightclub fumes) inside the compressor, so that we could have a visual dazzle of the whistles.
That song around the 7 minute mark is beautiful!
What a fun video! Thanks for the upload! I may just have to include this in one of my upcoming blog posts
There is a frati band organ extremely similar to this one at the Lakeside Park Carousel in Port Dalhousie, Ontario, Canada.
Yes it is beautiful--and very atypical of band organ music. The title is Amapola (My Pretty Little Poppy). This song was very popular during the Big Band Era.
The other tunes are: 0:45 Under the Double Eagle, 3:15 Melody of Love, 5:12 Sincerely, 8:52 Bushel and a Peck.
+Craig Wiley Is this yours Craig ?
+Musicmany2k Yes, it is. I purchased it in 2011.
You can definitely hear the similarity between the string stop in this organ and the Frati at Knoebels in PA.
What’s a string stop?
@@Vladimir82623 A rank that is built and tuned with certain overtones in mind to imitate a string instrument, like a violin.
@@Karlfalcon oh that make sense also when they punch the rolls out what type of notes do they use do they use piano, organ or what scale
@@Vladimir82623 Roll, book, or barrel organs normally do not have a fully chromatic scale, so they would not be able to play a piano roll. There are many different specific scales for organs, depending on how they were built.
@@Vladimir82623 look up the 20-note organ scale for an excellent example of how small organs can play well with so few notes available!
Mucha alegría me da ver su video. gracias.
Sehr schöne Orgel hat nen schönen Klang super bin Orgel Fan Monika aus Dessau Musikinstrumenten Qwälerin.Ich höre solche Orgel sehr sehr gerne an einfach genial super ist die.Wo ist des in Berlin wo die Orgel steht?"Einfach hammer geil.Schönes Teil klasse.Klingt nüscht verstimmt an Pfeifen.Ich habe da nen Ohr dafür wenn ne Pfeife verstimmt klingen tut.Auch sehr gepflegt sieht sie Orgel aus.Die müssen sehr gepflegt werden dann gehen se kaputt da bin ich traurig wenn solche Orgel rampotiert wird.Des tut mir in de Seele leid war.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Needs a good tuning session,
Song at 7:15? I also heard that melody played on a Wurlitzer theatre organ as well.
Song at 7.15 = "Amapola" 😊
Do these things run on vacuum (like a player piano ) or pressure or both. I love machines that make music.
Thanks for your interest Jack! Great question! Wurlitzer band organs use both pressure and vacuum (pressure to play the pipes and vacuum to operate the roll system); others, including the one on this video, use pressure only. That's why you see a roller with grooves holding the paper against the tracker bar--otherwise the pressure would lift the roll away from the tracker bar. The pressure system was a 1920s innovation by the Artizan Company, one of Wurlitzer's competitors. It simplified the organ's system by eliminating the vacuum pump. Later, after Artizan ceased operations, the B.A.B. Organ Company continued that system.
Craig Wiley
Thanks for your reply. I first saw one of these marvellous instruments when I was about 3 or 4 years old on a carousel at an amusement park near Detroit. Couldn't get it out of my head. They have some in Holland, Michigan and during the tulip festival in April they have a parade that features many of them. Glad to see that people such as yourself are restoring these magnificent old organs. Thanks again. Jack Clarke
Looks like it was a barrel organ converted to Artizan
I agree.
it used to be a a barrel organ