65 Key Gavioli Fairground Organ plays "Seaside Medley"

[@boombox4037]

This is probably the prettiest sounding gavioli I’ve ever heard definitely a great organ

[@laurencegresty6432]

Love it Grew up in steeple bumpstead Essex,Mr & Mrs Thompson Came into village and yes that truly awesome merry go around Very happy days ❣❣❣🌞🌞🌞

[@twincityarena53]

I THINK THAT THIS IS A GREAT SOUNDING ORGAN, SWEET AND SASSY.

[@PizzaKing_1225]

I’ve compiled a list of all the songs I was able to find. Thanks to everyone in the comments for helping identify these songs! 0:04 - “I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside”, John H. Glover-Kind (1907) 0:49 - “Why Can’t We Have the Sea in London”, Fred Godfrey and Billy Williams (1911) 1:22 - “I’ll Be Your Sweetheart”, Harry Dacre (1899) 1:59 - “By the Side of the Zuyder Zee”, AJ Mills and Bennett Scott (1906) 2:30 - “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles”, John William Kellette (1918) 3:00 - “Riding On Top of the Car”, Harry von Tilzer, Fred W. Leigh, V. P. Bryan (1905) 4:00 - “With My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock”, George Formby (1937) 5:20 - “I Belong to Glasgow”, Will Fyffe (1920)

[@1947Desoto]

4:00 George Formbys "With Me Little Stick of Blackpool Rock"! Love to hear one of his tunes in this form, never knew it was turned into a fairground roll!

[@RobSchofield]

Beautiful! I shall bring A Little Stick of Blackpool Rock when I visit :D

[@sirrliv]

Distill the emotions of nostalgic joy down to their component elements, convert them into music, and what you will get are the parps, wheezes, and cymbal crashes of a careworn fairground organ. I must say, I was pleasantly surprised to hear strains of "Riding On Top Of The Car" in there too. Seems not too many folks even know that song.

[@musicmachinesuk]

It's an very nice sounding 65 key Gavioli

[@simonreed2519]

great Gavioli sound

[@MrHeesbeen]

The odd time, I used to operate Ernie Emmerson`s 65 key at Levens Hall in Cumbria. It was certainly a `No Children Allowed` round the back. There were flying belts that could easily grab a arm and we all know how children like to investigate by touch. For a small key size, it was a mighty sound with the usual Gavioli rich baritone and bass. In recent years in the ownership of one of the Silcock family of showmen, it has been restored and when I last heard it, it sounded better than I had ever heard it at Levens. I believe that at one time there was one owned by Forrests showpeople, the Levens one and one other in this country.

[@dinglesfairgroundheritagec5532]

+MrHeesbeen This would be the "one other", which up until the 1980s stood in the centre of a set of Gallopers at Mablethorpe. For many years it was silent, but now restored, it can be seen at Dingles Fairground Heritage Centre, courtesy of Nobles Amusements.

[@boombox4037]

Definitely no children allowed in the back of an orchestrion 😅

[@alterman156channel]

A great many years ago there was a 65 key Gavioli organ on the Rye Playland carousel that apparently sounded much like this organ. It was set up to play 66 key B.A.B. paper rolls in 1928?. Then in the early 1960s it was converted to play Wurlitzer 165 paper rolls. It was originally a trumpet barrel organ. It was poorly maintained for many years and was removed from the carousel after the 1990 season. There is very little remaining of this organ. The facade does survive, but the organ behind it is a homebuilt organ with various assorted pipes from old church and other organs.

[@orchestrophone]

A 2:00 : "By the Side of the Zuyder Zee" ou "Le vrai diabolo". La chanson a été adaptée en France en 1906 par le chanteur Félix Mayol.

[@MrHeesbeen]

I believe that there were 3 x 65 key Gavioli`s in Britain. One was owned by Forrests, one seemed to have disappeared, while the one that was a Levens, spent its working life entirely in Cumbria at the fairground owned by the father of Ernie who inherited it on the death of his dad. It then spent many years at Levens and as far as I can remember, it had never been fully restored until Silcocks got hold of it. This is not the Mabelthorpe instrument as it was in Cumbria for a long time before and after the 80`s.

[@dinglesfairgroundheritagec5532]

+MrHeesbeen The three 65 key Gaviolis are: 1 - The ex-Emerson one which you refer to at Levens Hall, now owned by Herbert Silcock 2 - The Forrests one - still in use in the centre of their gallopers 3 - The one in this video, which for many years was in the centre of a set of gallopers at Mablethorpe, later owned by Keith Emmett, during which time it was restored to playing condition by Kevin Meayers. It is now owned by Nobles Amusements and is on loan to Dingles Fairground Heritage Centre.

[@MrHeesbeen]

Thank you for your help - there is nothing worse than being on the foothills of senility and driving yourself mad by trying to remember something that has dropped out of your memory.

[@robertharris5545]

There are 4 65 key gavioli organs in the UK, the most famous are the Forrest familys in their galloppers, then its identical twin is the one owned by the late Herbert Silcock, the one in this video then theres the Harris bros organ that is more or less identical to this organ apart from it's got wooden clarinets and the piccolos are a bit different, made by mr. Botting & mr. Hobbs in the 1980s

[@MechanicalMusicTravels]

@@robertharris5545 Also there is Pelham's organ which could be counted, it was a 65 key Gavioli originally although it was rebuilt to play a Verbeeck scale.

[@AmandaJohnson]

Is it possible for you to put a list of the songs and their times in the description?

[@billbrydon3725]

Here's what I know: 0:49 Why Can't We have the Sea In London? 2:29 I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles

[@MarwanFouwelsdraaiorgels]

0:00 I do like to be beside the sea side

[@Nico93]

Whats the first part of the tune called? its awfully familiare but i dont remember the name.

[@dinglesfairgroundheritagec5532]

+Nico 93 "I do like to be beside the Seaside"

[@GypsieT17]

Southend hear I come 😘💕👌🏼🤣🤣🤣

[@KawhackitaRag]

Thanks for posting this! I'd wanted to hear this organ for a long time! It sounds very nice. I'm curious: was this really originally a 65-key book organ, or was it a originally a book organ of a different scale, or a cylinder organ? Also, what is the serial number please? Thanks a lot!

[@danielgutierrez-bc8jv]

could you tell me the name of the second song? its really awesome, and thanks for uploading this :-)

[@skidfan9]

2 - I'll be your sweetheart Many thanks for the kind comments

[@MrDuffnote]

I love you truly

[@ABCDEF-yf4yu]

One tune is I belong to Glasgow, not a seaside town.