barrel organ

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a street barrel organist

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barrel organ (plural barrel organs)

  1. A musical instrument in which air from a bellows is admitted to a set of pipes by means of pins inserted into a revolving barrel (typically turned by a crank), originating in France.
    Synonyms: roller organ, street organ
    • 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Middlemarch , volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book (please specify |book=I to VIII):
      Poor Mrs. Cranch was bulky, and, breathing asthmatically, had the additional motive for making her remarks unexceptionable and giving them a general bearing, that even her whispers were loud and liable to sudden bursts like those of a deranged barrel-organ.
    • 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter LXXXIII, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:
      Ragged children played in the road, and an old barrel-organ was grinding out a vulgar tune.

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