Carl Frei was a German organ builder, composer and music arranger who founded a company that manufactured fairground and street organs.
Lekkerkerker barrel organ, built by Carl Frei in 1926. (90 keys)
Bloemenmeid barrel organ (Flower Girl), originally built as Gavioli cylinder organ.
Antique Amsterdam Street Organ at Holland, Michigan, Windmill Island.
Fair organ by Karl Frei & Sohn, Waldkirch, exhibited at Museum für Musikautomaten, Seewen.
A fairground organ is a musical organ covering the wind and percussive sections of an orchestra. Originated in Paris, France, it was designed for use in commercial fairground settings to provide loud music to accompany rides and attractions, mostly merry-go-rounds. Unlike organs for indoor use, they are designed to produce a large volume of sound to be heard above the noises of crowds and fairground machinery.
Ruth Fairground organ
The Frati & Co. Band Organ at the Lakeside Park Carousel in Port Dalhousie, ON.
The roll-playing mechanism on the Wurlitzer 146 band organ at the Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum in North Tonawanda, NY. 150 Scale.
Duplex roll mechanism of a Wurlitzer 153 band organ