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The Swiss Barrel Organ Club is coming to the 13th International Barrel Organ Winter Meeting at the Enter Technikwelt. Discover the history of how the barrel organ became the solo instrument of street musicians and was replaced by the gramophone and radio.
On the barrel organs, traditional folk songs, marches, opera arias, and timeless dances were played. Around 1900, the barrel organ helped the first hits and catchy melodies from well-known operettas gain great popularity and brought music from the concert halls to the streets for the people.
With the gramophone, sounds became reproducible, like Gutenberg's texts once were. Music could now be preserved and moved from concert halls into middle-class living rooms. With the spread of the gramophone and radio, mechanical musical instruments, including the barrel organ, increasingly fell into oblivion.
Experience various barrel organs and exciting performances.
Admission to the Barrel Organ Winter Meeting: free of charge
Organized by the Swiss Barrel Organ Club