fairground organ music.

xlchainsaw · fairground organ music.

liz is building her fairground organ model. we intend just to have a small set of speakers in the back to play the music. the lighting display (with classic s help) will be battery powered and the mechanical display will be driven by a showmans engine. what we need is some music. this can be mp3 ,cd, or copy. anything really. if you can help please pm or post. thanks in advance liz and glenn.(we dont mind paying

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H2o vapour

Hi,

Have a look at the Crank Organ ring

http://www.rollerorgans.com/The_Crank_Organ_Ring.htm

Should be able to get something from that

Best regards

H20

xlchainsaw

many thanks for that. searching through your link i found this website.
http://www.melright.com/busker/cds.htm ill wait till liz comes home from hospital before i buy some cds. of interest tho at the bottom of the webpage there are mp3 samples of organ music for download for FREE! this ive done so now i can test the sound system ect. many thanks once again. glenn

johnreid

Just below the flash files are links to MP3s of a Steam Calliope I think this is what you are looking for.

http://www.steamboats.org/whistle-calliope/ecaliope.html

Look on the right of the page and there are links to other steam calliopes. Heck, free MP3s what more could you ask for.

xlchainsaw

thanks john im downloading now i cant wait to hear the tunes.

a paddle steamer model would be great to have.

xlchainsaw

interesting music ive never heard that type before. is it played on the ships whistles? we have two paddle wheelers here on the brisbane river but they arent steam powered. ive been thinking of playing around with steam whistles. mm food for thought now!

johnreid

A Steam Calliope is played with a keyboard. Many were towed and played at Fairs and other events. Not only on Steam Ships.
Land based

On a boat or ship

Here is a small one in australia

I actually thought that was what you ere wanting to model, they were often played at Circuses and Fairs.

xlchainsaw

thanks john i can see one these comeing in the near future now i know about them

can you imagine this. a smaller boiler under steam with multiple mamod whistles attached connected to a cam so as to let off steam at intervals with this type of music playing! it would give the appearance of the whistles playing. this hobby is getting out of hand lol

by the way i have enough old parts to put it together. there isnt enough hrs in the day

xlchainsaw

i found this site too. free mp3s and pictures of the dancehall organs.
http://fairgroundfollies.com/organs.php

Nick

I don't understand how this is going to work, with whistles going and everything, but it sounds interesting.

xlchainsaw

my last link i posted shows pics of the famous fairground dance hall organs. note how they are decorated! to keep it simple . im making a box about the size of a shoe box. liz is going to decorate the front and i am making some mechanical features which will be steam driven, lights will be added of course and instead of trying to make a musical instrument a small set of amplified speakers are placed in the back and a mp3 player added.

so you play organ music whilst the lights are flashing and a mechanical display is happening. john has added another idea same deal as above but make a boiler with whistles letting off steam (not actually blowing)same deal with the music played by a mp3 player through speakers.

in other words a very fancy set of speaker boxes lol. liz is so keen as to already aquired supplies to decorate it. some plaster castings are going to be added. our showman conversion project is eating up the time at the moment( its gone from 1 showmans engine to 8!) canopies are ready to paint,dynamos purchased, bags of leds are on hand. im off now to get the brass work!with all this and more we have to have a model fairground organ.

remember this is a hobby i jointly share with liz. liz s grandfather was a showman! so the family is behind us making a model vintage steam fairground.when its finished it will be a model of the dorest steam fair! i hope our projects will make sense to anyone if you use the dorset steam fair as a plan to our modelling.

cranes,ploughs,thrashing,heavy haulage, organ houses, showman engines, fairground train.sawmilling ect. all staring mamods (and bits of mamods lol)

steamyman

xl- that should look and sound Great!

xlchainsaw

liz and i have been showing bits and pieces and its soon to start to come together ! liz and i have been thinking members here must think we are cracked or something! we go from one theme to another ect. liz works on the fairground part .im doing the agriculture side. the thing is it all takes time. 35hrs has been spent making just the canopies. this is from 1mm thick sheet metal and it takes some cutting! this is for the showmans. we have a surprise for the forum coming! 2 very special models! we didnt see any in the stia vid !we found a pic in an old mag so we know they existed but weve never seen one. these have my urgent attention before forrest steam or san......? releases these. so my friends you will be the first to see them.!

johnreid

So many of the replicas made, I believe Wilesco makes what is supposed to be a Calliope but in fact is operated by perforated paper

I believe that James has a mechanical copy of a Calliope also, I think that if one was to make a reasonable looking one that the sound could be made with a digital device or a walkman or something along those lines.

xlchainsaw

before liz became ill she was a local politician in the city of gladstone qld. whilst a serving member she noticed that the city had a steam calliope in their museum! she is going to use old contacts and get some pics and when we go up there (700 miles away) in may ill have a good look at it.

till today ive never seen or heard of one.

johnreid

Cool, you learn something every day.
Give our best wishes to Liz, I hope she is doing better.