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.

Draaiorgelbedrijf Joris ten Have
,,Voor elk evenement het juiste pierement!"

James' Organ brings happiness and joy to events across Cornwall! A real crowd puller. Entertainment and amazement.

Subscribe for sounds both traditional and modern, all played through perforated cardboard!

If you want to keep track of whats going on with our collection of Mechanical music and new discs being released, you will hear it here first.

Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/JohnHartmann/

Contact: csc@johnhartmann.net

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams

"What occurs in the world is that everyone who is born, is born, in some manner of speaking, a poet, the creator of something that did not exist in the world before, till they were born. It is entirely individual.
Man is not born to work, Man is born to create, to be that poet at random. And give to the world his own particular message, to realize the work that can be done and because he is unique, his work will be the only one of the kind in the world." - Agostinho da Silva


Header image: The Bachelor Party by Louis William.

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