1920 Pneumatic Circus Calliope

[@Ti-nw1hg]

"Be still, for there is strange music"

[@ferociousgumby]

This is stirring some neurons - I'm remembering a life I didn't even live

[@johnhaines124]

Same here when I hear this kind of stuff it makes me remember something I haven’t even done.

[@jeffreykeffer4352]

@@johnhaines124 Oh you guys have done it , just not this life time ... its the happy times that always show through from the other side, other wise no one would ever come back

[@83Henno]

@@jeffreykeffer4352 trippin out man

[@BuriedFlame]

*Homsar voice* _"I was a bag of pink candy popcorrrn!!"_

[@corniss]

Your past life

[@corniss]

Ok. I am 61 and i just discovered what i want to be when i grow up.

[@mistermusturd6402]

Never another day will I worry about which music will be played at my funeral.

[@Ganaha_Celosia_Priskos]

My great grandma has a Calliope in her house. It's in the second living room and I sometimes play it when she isn't around because she can't stand the loudness of it.

[@allseriousness]

why would you do that

[@Ganaha_Celosia_Priskos]

I was probably curious hehe. The real question was why she had one in her house in the first place.

[@trainfan-ks5hk]

Celosia Ganaha Priskos The plot thickens my dears

[@ColinTheFurryYT]

@@Ganaha_Celosia_Priskos does she still have it? If so I would like to hear you play it

[@CameronsCars]

Make a video with it

[@kazombie]

The song is "Waitin' For The Robert E. Lee"

[@klyborniernhart4167]

Thats Friggin Funnee

[@Khamomil]

The timber of a Calliope is so unique. It has a softness. I love it.

[@fuitgummi8208]

This is the most comforting thing I've ever heard, I love Calliope music.

[@klyborniernhart4167]

Ladies And Gentlemen! Boys and Girls! Children Of All Ages!!! Gather Round!! And Welcome!! To the One!! And Only!! Greatest Show On Earth!! The Ringling Brothers Family Circus!!! (I Miss Those Days)

[@MA3POLO]

One minute, I'm listening to rappers from the Calliope housing projects in New Orleans, the next second I end up here. Nice!!

[@crocodylus73]

Chick magnet

[@plumbersteve]

this made me lol

[@mailman87120]

Lol.

[@brokefarmerjohn2422]

They can both blow. Him on pipes, her on a rod 😂

[@mattthomas3914]

Not a dry pair of panties here.

[@CaveWomen88]

LOL So hot, Snow cones melting everywhere

[@SirWeeWahTheThird]

That was AWESOME!!!

[@davidhouser1187]

this man is cooler than I will ever be.

[@jennydeaf9O9]

in, what i call the superfuture, we are all lil gumby guys and this is what most of the music of that world would feel like. awesome performance. thank you so much, OP.

[@fizzygrizzly9892]

I played Mario paint when I was a kid on the Super Nintendo and this reminds me of some of the music in that game lol

[@Melissa-qj6gh]

Yea me to

[@sandrapanico6357]

This is definitely more Carousel worthy music and I bet that if for some reason a band organ was not working, this would definitely fill in the gaps for an out of commission band organ. I wish that was the case for even some grand carousels in my area. Recorded music just isn’t the same as the calliope or the band organ itself. I wish we had this for the Greenway Carousel in Boston. So much more fun to listen to than recorded music.

[@JOSECORRALHLcorral-ye5jd]

CALLIOPE IS MY FAVORITE INSTRAMENT AND THIS IS THE BEST MUSIC EVER BUT INFACT OF THE UNIQUE SOUND IT HAS IT MAKES ME CRY AND ONE MORE THING ANYBODY HERE IN 2021.🙂🙂🙂

[@tjking9969]

Be still, for there is strange music 👁

[@cheerio4000]

This is so adorable I wanna go to a 1920s carnival

[@condor.67]

I could listen to this kind of music all day

[@devinpaul9026]

That is one well maintained unit!

[@LNERMallard]

Such a nice, happy sound. I love these things.

[@danc3488]

Saw this today in Freeport, NY at a Halloween Festival. Jim admitted it was out of tune a bit, but still sounded great. What an awesome piece of history!

[@MariahnFulminate]

Charming instrument. Nicely played.

[@jordandavis1315]

I want him to show up to my burial and play this song as they lower me into the ground.

[@bagellord113]

What a absolute lad

[@bekit7131]

That’s so amazing. Bravo!! You’re very talented!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏿👏🏿👏🏾👏🏾👏🏽💕💕💕

[@MajoraProject]

the horn was a nice touch :D

[@davidherringgo]

Wow. What a blast from the past . Thanks for the post. I will show my piano teacher.

[@MarkCJackman]

Alright, this goes in my "Good Time Musics" playlist.

[@100PercentOS2]

Love this guy playing the calliope and love how he has it set up. Sounds great.

[@nathanlor3204]

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, BOYS AND GIRLS, CHILDREN OF ALL AGES. WELCOME TO THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH. THE RINGLING BROTHERS FAMILY CIRCUS!! #IMISSTHECIRCUS

[@stellastearns1750]

POV you just wanted to understand how a calliope sounded like cause you watch TMA

[@onemoremisfit]

POV you remember just a few years ago when people weren't trying to put POV in front of everything.

[@_BrettHamblin_]

Does anyone else start to think, "Roller Coaster Tycoon"?

[@imkool51391]

***** no i think bioshock infinite

[@juanis173]

oh my gooddddddnesssss

[@juanis173]

yes roller-coaster tycoonnn

[@YFNGamer1]

"Calliope1 is a really good value." "I'm drowning!"

[@jameslbartz921]

No

[@berzerk130]

I dream of having as much swag as this guy

[@JL-lg8tk]

I love it. I could listen to that all day.

[@tedperry6466]

finally a calliope on youtube that sounds good. Why are there so many that sound out of tune. I used to work on the Mississippi Queen, (R.I.P) and I don't ever recall the calliope sounding as bad as it does here on YT????

[@Teeveepicksures]

ITS JACKIE!!!!! WOOO WOOO!!!!!

[@JOSECORRALHLcorral-ye5jd]

ITS MAY 31 2021 AND I STILL LISTEN TO THIS CALLIOPE COMPARED TO GOING TO THE CURCIS OR THE MEMORIAL DAY BECAUSE I LOVE THE UNIQUE SOUND IT HAS BUT IF I HEAR IT TOO MUCH I MIGHT CRY. 🤗🤗😃😃😃😳😳☺️❤️❤️❤️

[@joelshepherdultrainstinctm7605]

1920s are awesome carnival music

[@perrychantal8233]

j'adore, c'est superbe....

[@soyevquirsefron990]

I was just now telling my kids, calliope music is circus music because in the early 1900s you could have one wagon with a steam organ and one guy playing it and make music loud enough for an entire circus. And here you are!

[@NEWSFLASHAA00]

Beautiful!

[@confusingTM]

this is delightful ^-^

[@TOm-g9x8f]

This we skated to at the Arnolds Park Roller Rink........above was the Rooftop Pavillion, where we partied to Steppenwolf.....mems

[@Ebvardh]

Very nice tune, sir.

[@vho_ilrsnc]

Very Nice! Thanks for posting this video.

[@Octovisuals]

Amazing sound, thanks!

[@Gstein11]

Loved it. Sure wish you would post another song on this wonderful instrument.

[@scada4321]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWSkmGx3qNCSg5o

[@tylercordeiro2926]

I love it it's beautiful

[@scada4321]

Please...don't compare me with Anton LaVey. (I'm the one playing the Calliope here) He and I have our own styles of playing. His Satanist proclivities aside, I consider Mr. LaVey to be one of the better masters of the Calliope that are alive today. He knows his "stuff" and technically, you'd be hard pressed to find a better man for the job. The instrument is not an organ, nor a piano. It demands a touch and a mentality that Mr. LaVey portrays very well. ...Jim

[@coastal399]

Wow!!!!! Cool to see this!!

[@scada4321]

The name of the piece is "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee" done in the Key of "C". @@brenwenmin

[@brenwenmin]

​@@scada4321Thanks! Appreciate that!

[@Eden-ot9vk]

Be still, for there is strange music

[@Lalaz]

I just came here from that episode. I started listening to tma recently

[@possessedpeach4455]

oh nice another tma fan!

[@FritzMcYeet]

Imagine walking down a road, and you see and hear this thing being pulled by a tractor or something

[@conzmoleman]

ok. i did. now what?

[@FritzMcYeet]

@@conzmoleman freak out

[@nyarome8436]

IT'S BINKY THE CLOOOOOWN!!

[@darkwadah]

Nikola’s Uber is here

[@frankroberts3596]

I think I smell popcorn and cotton candy

[@mortson978]

yeah, liapaman sent me the answer, I'm already a few bars into it. My granny is pretty impressed.

[@ferenccseh4037]

This is the best thing ever!

[@Khamomil]

The sound can be modified. There are lots of different sounds (or "timbers" for the same note in a church organ. The mechanical things are called "stops". I suppose the Calliope Co. patented their sound because no other organ brand has that exact sound.

[@LDTV22OfficialChannel]

OH MY GOD THIS VIDEO WAS PUBLISHED A YEAR BEFORE I WAS BORN

[@marvinthemaniac7698]

This is the first calliope I've ever seen with a train whistle.

[@pajamalover]

beautiful :-)

[@UltimaXG2]

Breathy oscillating flue pipe with a slight chirp on the attack.

[@kidzbop38isstraightfire92]

Something Wicked This Way Comes

[@mgul0619]

is it true that you can hear calliope 3 miles away???

[@jacobwoods8738]

ruhi gul The genuine steam ones could be heard 3 miles away, quite well.

[@joezot8175]

Excellent!

[@BunnaySango]

Great song I love Candle Cove

[@scada4321]

Waitin' For the Robert E. Lee.

[@sillyfunforeveryone7605]

Good job joe

[@allseriousness]

I was born in the wrong era

[@dinoman1129]

Fricking millennials

[@rawtrout007]

James Cockerham you were never born

[@noomeron]

Sent from my iPhone 6SR Plus

[@AgamemnonVsSocratesAandS]

But your lucky enough to be able to enjoy any type of music you'd want within seconds now. If you lived in the 1920s you'd really only hear this if you visited a circus, pier, or fairground.

[@exbronco1980]

They float down there, they all float.

[@sassychimpanzee7431]

My husband and I named our new puppy Calliope 😊

[@huh7840]

this thing is one year older than my grandpa

[@frzstat]

Awesome!

[@hobomike6935]

*when casey Jr.'s coming round the track with a smoky stack, but in real life:* 1:04

[@davidknox1234]

Reminds me of the opening theme from Magic Roundabout.

[@Ebvardh]

@noper12345 Huh, I was not aware of that. Thanks for that little piece of trivia.

[@landocommando8]

If I was stuck in traffic behind this guy, I would not complain.

[@travelmonkey1957]

... Reminds me of whenever you enter Goldsaucer in FF7

[@ninethreefournine7139]

Hello Jon, Apologies for the deception….

[@manga12]

Actually I did, while trying to find videos of the grand ophiclade. same type of principal an air powered musical instrament, played by a keyboard, even if the thing plays whistles instead of pipes, also it was nicknamed the fire organ for a time, due to the steam being heated to play it. Who said I didnot like it, I just said its hurting my ears, due to the pitch. There are only a few dozen calliopes left in the nation if even that of the origional ones.

[@nahkohese555]

I want one!

[@person4169]

Still searching for Paul's Calliope stream music

[@DoktorPaj]

I love it

[@fredo1070]

Leisure Suit Larry!

[@rpm2004]

I think the pressure was too high, some of the notes sounded clear, while others sounded "breathy" if you know what I mean.

[@johnnydugas1970]

Probably just the recording quality, you need a pretty good Mic for something that loud, not too mention KZbin's compression

[@scada4321]

Go Jimmy Go!

[@alexs.4700]

They still make these and if you want one, it will run you about 12,000. That's without all the fancy self playing stuff. The song he is playing is "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee"

[@scada4321]

+Alex s. Then you add the wagon, generator, tow car, driver, it's always the details.... You can buy this one complete with tow car and generator for $25K (no driver) ...Jim

[@alexs.4700]

+scada4321 Thats pocket change! i wish.

[@CaveWomen88]

I know your comment is old - but an you tell me the name of the company that makes these?? Thanks.

[@EMD2024]

manga12- It's not a pipe organ and "it shore don't sound like one" so why compare it to one? This is a great piece of Americana so enjoy it or take your oh-so-sensitive ears elsewhere. No one made you watch/ listen to this so why complain and compare it to something it's not even supposed to be close to in sound? Are those banjos I hear in the background? Yeah, I know he'll never see this comment but why pick on a nice video post?

[@scada4321]

That's me playing this calliope. True, I've dented a few sensitive ears with this instrument.

[@LordQueezle]

I WANT ONE!!!!!!! I really would love to have one of these... does anybody know how one would go about getting one...?

[@RTRFriendorpho]

+Lord Queezle You can buy contemporary versions, but they cost upwards of $11,000.

[@LordQueezle]

+RTRFriendorpho on second thought... Thanks for the tip though! If ever I get enough money... :)

[@RTRFriendorpho]

Lol, yeah. I thought I wanted one too, until I saw the price.

[@LordQueezle]

+RTRFriendorpho :D :P

[@rpm2004]

+Lord Queezle even though on closer inspection, I can tell your post is two different smiley faces, but since it's made out of letters I still can't help but see "DP", which, if done to me would make me >:[

[@ceddicguppy6627]

We're are the lion and the fairgroud the wheel . And the rollercoaster!?? And the clown!????

[@kevinhunter6457]

This is the same song played by that other musical machine at the House on the Rock. Problem is, I don't know the name of the song even though it's one of my favorites. Does anyone know the name of the song?

[@kevinhunter6457]

@French Jesus Aha! Thanks for telling me! Thank you!

[@miorieser3210]

Astrein! 👌

[@cheerio4000]

Feels like something in a horror movie ngl

[@ul7185]

9 @ 9 Segments from WGN Morning News Only

[@funtimewithnickandfriends1998]

I watch a show with this music

[@brianfalzon6739]

Wow, where is it now?

[@zorsee.]

That’s what I’m wondering too! Such a beautiful piece of history :)

[@scada4321]

@@zorsee. I'm still here...residing in Freeport, NY

[@creativestrokez3840]

When I saw the thumbnail, I thought it was something from the trailer park boys.

[@troostan2776]

Where am I and how did I get here

[@Lalaz]

the clowns commanded you

[@MacCready_]

Just trying to find a video of a calliope crashing to the ground

[@alphonsotate2982]

Good song

[@Th3EpicGamer]

WOW!