barrel organ

Barrel organ. Index card reads: Barrel organ. J.W. WALKER, 27 FRANCIS STREET, TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD, LONDON; Two stops:- stopped wood 8' and open metal 4'; 16 notes. Four barrels, one in position, two in cupboard below organ (for tunes see back) one missing. Trade card of maker and tune-lists inside lid. Standard model. Ten tunes on each barrel. One barrel missing 3.12.71. Generally in good condition and playing order, but rather dingy. One dummy front pipe missing and one broken. Pinning of barrels defective. All notes working. Height overall: 1320 mm, Width overall: 568 mm, Depth overall: 377 mm. REVERSE OF CARD: Barrel I: 1. Portugese Hymn: 2. Cambridge New: 3. Devizes: 4. China: 5. Calcutta: 6. Lonsdale: 7. Cranbrook: 8 Advent Hymn: 9. Easter Hymn: 10. Evening Hymn. Barrel II: 1. Alice Gray: 2. I've plucked the fairest: 3. Rise gentle moon: 4. Meet me by moonlight: 5. The White Cockade: 6. Green Hills, Tyrol. 7. Oh! No we never mention her: 8. Blue Bells of Scotland: 9. Carnival of Venice: 10. God Save the Queen. Barrel III: 1. Brave old oak: 2. Woodman spare that tree, 3. The broken hearted Shepard (sic): 4. The Comet of the West: 5. The light of other days: 6. College Hornpipe: 7. Misseltoe (sic) Bough: 8. Tramp, Tramp: 9. Morning Hymn: 10. Christmas Hymn. Barrel IV: 1. Meet me in the Lane: 2. Polly put the kettle on: 3. St Patrick's day: 4. Champagne Charlie: 5. Tommy Dodd: 6. She danced like a fairy: 7. Within a mile of Edinboro': 8. Moustrap Man: 9. Have you seen my Polly: 10. Not for Joe.

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