Organ-grinding tweets for December
Xmas &c.
Tag: christmas
Organ-grindish twitterings for November
Dominated by a sojourn in the Czech Republic.
Etymology of Trippier
Does Kieran have a goatherd or a tripe merchant in his paternal line?
Organ-grinder tweets for December 2017
More inanity from the Hackney organity.
London organ-grinder tweets for September 2017
Barrel/street organ stuff.
On the French penchant for inventing things already in existence elsewhere
François Dominique Séraphin, Bourbon favourite and reputedly the father of ombres chinoises (shadow puppetry), began operating 15 years later than is generally thought, and may have copied his techniques from an itinerant Italian or a London Alsatian. Featuring the memoirs of the valet to the later Louis XVII, early descriptions of the delights of the renovated Palais Royal (including a pygmy show), jolly old Baron Grimm on the lamentable state of French opera, shadow plays, and marionettes, and William Beckford’s favourite designer of theatrical perversions.
A sensational 1810 Parisian fire scene on top of an 1840s Russian barrel organ
But who are the three noseless Austrian ladies?
The debasement of the European mind
A populist US senator meets an Italian organ-grinder in Rome in 1859.
Did the house that Jack built come from Spain?
Or, How to cook the old lady who swallowed a fly without stooping to cannibalism. Cumulative songs (and monstrous nested stuffing recipes) in Quixote and Estebanillo González, with the grossest video you’ll see today.
Will Kemp Morris-danced from London to Norwich
But unfortunately he probably won’t figure in the results of the Singing Organ-Grinder’s historical explorations into English popular song.
