Organ-grinding tweets for December
Xmas &c.
Tag: Accordion
Several Viennese musical curiosities
Karl Nagl’s claim that, unlike the Germans, Viennese organ-grinders are musicians, because they have “crank-sense.” And female yodelling with Dudlerinnen Trude Mally and Maly Nagl.
Top 10 Russian football songs: No. 8: the 1938 Futbol’nyy Marsh (“Football March”) by Matvey Blanter, composer of Stalin-era patriotic ditties
With a recording of a barrel alarm clock, a Shostakovich anecdote, a copyright tussle between the Russian Premier League and the Russian Authors’ Society, and more Blatner material.
Musical objects found in the Damrak and Rokin Amstel-bed excavations
A treasure trove from the tunnel bores for Amsterdam’s controversial North-South metro line.
The Singing Organ Grinder’s tweet archive for February 2018
Another abundance of redundance. Featuring Russian, German and Italian puppetry, organ-grinding, and other nonsense.
Potential accordion purchase
This is an option now the Casio kiddieboard is dead and there’s not enough time for the barrel organ.
Squeezing it for all it’s worth
Idi Amin and other celebrity accordionists