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La feria madrileña imita a Petruskha.
Tag: russia
So where does Silvio Berlusconi stand on organ-grinders?
Unfortunately Alan Friedman’s excellent authorised bio, My Way, leaves us none the wiser.
Hanseatic legionaries, playing at Waterloo and at Punch and Judy
A Hamburg organ-grinder’s dad at Waterloo, and whatever happened to his son’s Drehorgellieder?
Stalin’s organ works
But all its pipes are the same length, so it only plays one note. Plus totalitarian musical dogs and terror management studies.
Merchants and tenants at Billingsgate Market include…
City Music Services. Let me explain. And introduce my top 10 performing fish.
Revenge of the mechanical musical instruments
A version of Stravinsky’s Petrushka for street organ.
French and Russian cavalry rode backwards in retreat?!
This claim helped defeat Valentine Shortis’ insanity plea at his murder trial in 1895-6, but was it true?
Paintings by Yefim Ladizhinsky of street organs accompanying shows
Three Russian rooster animations
“Big cock” and “The old man and the cock are versions of “Medio pollico” / “Demi-coq”, and “Why the cock wears shorts” is something else.
How to get on spammers’ lists for ever
And make Kalebeul’s fortune in the process.