Barrel organ

Barrel organ (Fr.: orgue à cylindre, orgue à manivelle, orgue de Barbarie; Ger.: Drehorgel, Leierkasten, Leierorgel, Walzenorgel; It.: organino a cilindro, organo portatile), mechanical portable organ descended not from the *portative organ but from the miniature *bird organ, of which it is merely an enlargement, possibly of It. invention and dating from the turn of the 17th c. to the 18th c. (see: orgue de Barbarie). Essentially it consists of 2 or more ranks of organ pipes in an enclosed…