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The Swiss Barrel Organ Club is coming to 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. Sweeten your day with a self-decorated gingerbread heart.
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, bringing music from 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 bourgeois 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, performances, gingerbread decorating, and an exciting lecture.
10:15 to 10:45 am
Barrel organ performance
11:15 to 11:45 am
1:30 to 2:00 pm
Lecture on the history of Berlin barrel organs
2:30 to 3:00 pm
Price: included in the daily admission
Young and old have the opportunity to decorate a gingerbread heart on Barrel Organ Day. Secure a heart now or drop by spontaneously to see if there's still a heart for you.
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