"THE EMPEROR SPEAKS"- The World's Largest Carousel Organ

Collection Contents

#		Title	Length
1		Que Sera Sera	2:05	Play
2		Hello Dolly	2:22	Play
3		Dixie	1:54	Play
4		My Wild Irish Rose	2:17	Play
5		De Camptown Races	2:03	Play
6		Anvil Chorus	2:38	Play
7		Red Wing	2:52	Play
8		El Capitan	3:20	Play
9		Sweet Rose O'Grady	3:23	Play
10		Ta Ra Ra Boom Der Aye	2:04	Play
11		Stars And Stripes Forever	2:21	Play
12		The Mosquitoes Parade	2:50	Play
13		Tenting Tonight	2:11	Play
14		Glow Worm	3:09	Play
15		Sweet Georgia Brown	1:49	Play
16		Clarinet Waltz	2:26	Play
17		Just Because	1:50	Play
18		Rosiland Waltz	1:45	Play
19		Black Hawk Waltz	2:30	Play
20		Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey?	2:44	Play
21		Somewhere My Love	3:36	Play
22		The Skater's Waltz	3:06	Play
23		Midnight Fire Alarm	3:26	Play
24		Burning of Rome	4:30	Play
25		Down Yonder	1:28	Play

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Description

The stately Emperor was made in Belgium by Mortier before the turn of the century. At that time it played from a pinned cylinder called a "cob." The cardboard books of music it now plays from are made of a special material from Sweden with flax in it to keep the perforations sharp and clear. Instruments played by this machine include 418 pipes, bass drum, cymbal, snare drum, double castanets and 22 xylophone bars. Its effect is similar to that of a 60 piece orchestra.
The following is a list of instruments as they are controlled by the "brain" or keyframe as shown on the original gamut book; madolinne, piston, xiliphon, trommel snare and cast, tremelo, gross caisse, klein fluit, groote fluit, harmonium, violincelle, saxifoon, trombon, voisc humaine fixe, voisc celeste, violon. Every piece of this organ was hand made-even the brass vox humnan pipes were swedged and flared by hand.
The ingenious tremelos will produce, with the vox humana, violin, diapason, and melphone, a marvelous sound not unlike the human singing voice.