Great Fairground Organs

Gavioli and Marenghi

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Pettigroves 89 key Gavioli

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George Cushing's 98 Key Marenghi recorded 1959. Note that at this moment in time the organ was still playing from bellows.

Easter Parade, I was Lucky, June in January and Le Reve Passe March

With kind permission from Mr. Phillip Upchurch.

Cushing's Marenghi recorded 1959.

Tom Albert's 98 Key Marenghi recorded 1959. 

Musical Switch

With kind permission from Mr. Phillip Upchurch.

Musical Switch - Tom Albert's 98 Key Marenghi

89-key Gavioli ''De Leeuw'' - Feestpotpourri

Horsey Keep Your Tail Up

Sidney Torch Medley

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The Birds - 89 key Pierre Eich

Barnaby and Kathleen Newton's 89 key fairground organ plays the well known "Consider yourself one of us" from Lional Bart's famous musical, Oliver.  Great Dorset Steam Fair, 2015

Consider Yourself

Orient Express

Composed and arranged to celebrate Andrew's 40th birthday, the March was a present from his wife Joan. Played here on Barnaby and Kathleen Newton's immaculate 89 key Marenghi replica organ, which would not have come to life without Andrew's help.

09 The Andrew Whitehead March

89 key Gavioli owned by Chris Dobb playing:?

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Hollingsworth's 89 Key Marenghi (Now Frank Lythgoe's) recorded c.1959 at "The Hill Top Hotel" Conninsbrough.

What a Little Bit of Moonlight Can Do | No, No, A Thousand Times No | Roll Along Covered Wagon | Home James and Don't Spare the Horses | Who's Been Polishing The Sun.

With kind permission from Mr. Phillip Upchurch.

Hollingsworth's 89 Key Marenghi. Recorded c.1959

The travelling fun-fair is transient, almost intangible, here today, gone tomorrow.  However, even in these "more enlightened" days, music is the soul of the fair.  These recordings will take you back to a less priveliged time, when the pace of life was slower and the arrival of the showpeople was a big event, and the rides were hauled by steam and featured mammoth mechanical organs, the best of which, according to experts, were built in Paris at the turn of the 20th Century.  Enjoy! Remember the amazing surprise of my appearance; think of me when I have gone away.

Consider Yourself

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