Austria – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

A sensational 1810 Parisian fire scene on top of an 1840s Russian barrel organ

But who are the three noseless Austrian ladies?

Robert Hillingford, The Disaster at the Ball Given by the Austrian Embassy in Paris, 1810 (1897).

Irregular rhythmic irregularity in southern German music

How to write pastiche inconsistent non-isochronous subdivision for mechanical organ. With metrical analysis of the notes inégales in a bit of the Furtwängler recording of Mozart’s Gran Partita.

The Moravian Mathias Zdarsky demonstrating his new skiing technique (c. 1905), with unknown metrical consequences.

Is the Cibber piper in the V&A a notorious plague-pit drunkard?

Featuring O du lieber Augustin, the Thomases Dekker and Middleton, Daniel Defoe and various disreputable beggars and foreigners.

Cibber's blind(?) piper (dog bottom left) in the V&A.

The Singing Organ-Grinder’s top 10 pig songs

Sincerity meets spam.

Pig-shaped terracotta rattle, Cypriot 3rdC BC-2ndC BC.

Fucking Ada

Excelente canción de Ian Dury, que nada tiene que ver con nuestra nueva alcaldesa.