Castell – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

July tweets from London’s Singing Organ-Grinder

Cornwall, pleased to see someone.

London organ-grinding tweets for October 2017

Lukewarm barrel organ-ish ephemera from Hackney, London and thereabouts.

A bull attacks the first public train service in Russia, causing the ceremonial organ-grinder to teeter dangerously.

The 1660 Foire de Saint-Germain

Featuring castanets, monkeys, marionettes, and human and tortoise castles.

Balthasar Nebot, The Forze D'Ercole; the Castellani acrobats in a Venetian piazza.

Castells, for real

A mad, mad Japanese video, and a human ladder at the Muslim siege of Aleppo in 637.

Roman double testudo, from Potter <em>Archaeologia graeca</em>. I'm told that the optimal shagging angle for turtles is 30º, so this counts as deviant.