Steam powered street organ

Best viewed in 1080. This is an adaption of an off- the -shelf 16 note crank organ. The hand crank drives 2 sets of leather bellows in series. The music is cut on what is called a book (just one song). The air slots are cut on folding pages of the book for differing duration of each note played. Much simpler than a steam calliope. It is running on air for this test video, but will be on steam once I get the propane tank filled. The main organ fits in just a 14“ cube and has the 3 lowest tone wooden pipes folded inside like the letter L & J. The advantage of an engine running it is stable/adjustable speed. The maker is a Ukrainian born craftsman living in CT. He makes a range of these and this is his smallest called “OldFellow 16“. This is the smallest functional one I have ever seen. See I built my own cart and styled it per the European examples, but it is a bit on the heavy side with the steam engin
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