Fairground Organ, Player Pianos, Music Boxes Restorers and Builders Links

Other Mechanical Music Sites
Restorers, Builders and Suppliers

Organ Builders and Restorers and Music Suppliers
Miscellaneous Suppliers
Other Mechanical Music Sites

Page updated: April 26, 2008

Some of these links are to professional restorers and builders and sources of supply for mechanical musical instruments and associated items such as music, books and recordings.

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Organ Builders, Restorers & Music Suppliers
A Cragg Organ Builders	A Cragg Organ Builders, manufacture or repair of most organ parts and pipes to your requirements. Restoration of all types of organs and allied instruments. Trade experience and specialising in mechanical organs since the 1950s.
	Dean Organs A well established UK builder of a wide range of instruments.
	N. J. Dean & Co. Fair Organ Music & Music Boxes Perforated Music for Fairground & Street Organs plus Music Boxes & Music Gifts
	John M Page, Organ Builder. 27 years' experience in building and restoration of mechanical organs, church organs, and harmoniums.
	Alan Pell Music Welcome to our new Web Site - AT LAST!! We have been Organ Building at Whaplode Drove since 1976.
	Rollcutter Producers of perforated music for the john smith 20 note organ.
	Peter Trueman Based in Derby, England, a respected builder of fair and street organs from 21-keyless upwards.
	SWEET SENSATIONS Manufacturer of small hand-turned organs in Boston, Lincolnshire.
	Melvyn Wright, Music Arranger. Music Rolls and Perforated Music Books for Mechanical Organs. The UKs leading arranger/producer of music for mechanical organs and organ grinders.
	Jan Kees de Ruijter, Music Arranger. Music for street, dance and fair organs. Amsterdam, Holland.
	The Great Canadian Nickelodeon Company, Ltd.
	Le Ludion organ builders. A site about Organ-building, their collection of antiques, a gallery of street musicians, news from the wonderful world of mechanical musical instruments and a specific mart of old items.
	Jaeger and Brommer Organ builders in Waldkirch, Germany. This links to their homepage which gives details of their organ building and restoration company and a "What's On" in the area.
	Heesbeen Draaiorgels Organ builder in the Netherlands. Dutch language site
	E Pluer - Organ Builders.
	Stinson Band Organ Co. American builder of world class carousel & fairground band organs.
	Der Orgelbau im Wienerwald Austrian builders of small mechanical organs and church organs. German language site
Miscellaneous Suppliers
	Bob Essex Bob's new site, including his famous "MIDster" Punch.
	J W Electronics. MIDI-to-parallel converters. Provides a complete interface between any MIDI standard controller and any device capable of being controlled electrically.
	Albert Lewis, Bygone Designs Airbrush art, traditional & modern fairground art, signwriting, murals, stage scenery & backdrops, shop displays & facias.
	Stephen & Vicky Postlethwaite Period Fairgrounds for hire Restoration and Decorative Painting.
	Jumper Books Brian Steptoe's catalogue of traditional fairground books, covering traditional and vintage fairground topics.
	Mechanical Music antiques. Marty Roenigk's mechanical music shop.
John Smith	John Smith Organ Building Plans.
	John A Tuttle "Self Playing Pianos", 407 19th Avenue, Bricktown, NJ 08714, USA. Email . "We Keep Your Music Rolling" Authorized QRS Music Roll Dealer
	Dave Ingalls is a collector and restorer of mechanical musical instruments. Buys and sells.
	Dirks Projects Dirk's Organ Roll Scanner. (Beware of copyright infringement!)
	Antique Mechanical Musical Instruments, from Switzerland.
Other Mechanical Music Sites
	The North West Group of the Fair Organ Preservation Society
	The Mechanical Organ Site
traditionalorgangrinders.co.uk	Cooke & Sons, traditional organ grinders.
	iMOD, the independent Mechanical Organ Discussions forum.
	Fairground Heritage Trust, housed at the Dingles Fairground Heritage Centre at Lifton, Devon.
Ian's Mechanical Organ Gallery	Ian Postlethwaite's great new website.
	Duncan Mallows' website, with details of his organs and other interests.
	Shakespeare's Rally Promotions, with details of their future rallies, and pictures of past rallies.
	World's Fair weekly newspaper. The publication carries preservation news, including the "FOPS Notes" column.
	History in Harmony. Specialist tours to organ collections, including those on the Continent of Europe.
Musical Box Society of Great Britain	The Musical Box Society of Great Britain site.
	National Fairground Archive, Sheffield, United Kingdom. This is now the home of the FOPS archive, too.
	Fairground Art, Michael Smith's Fairground Art website, including current news from the Fairground Heritage Trust.
	FOPS member Nick Williams' site with details of his own-built organ.
	The website of the Burrell Scenic Showmans Engine Lord-Lascelles, including the 110-key Gavioli it generated for.
	Welcome to All The Fun Of The Fair Established in 1997, this is the premier site For UK Travelling Showmen & Funfair Fans.
Nationaal Museum van Speelklok tot Pierement	National Museum from Musical Clock to Street Organ, Utrecht.
	The Haarlem organ museum, Holland. Now open in its new home.
	Gerry Bay's mechanical music site, presenting the private collection including pictures and audio/video clips. Various pieces are occasionally for sale along with CD's of the collection.
Harmonie Orchestrion	"Harmonie Orchestrion" site by George Houghton
	GreatCollectible.com Online Antique and Collectibles Shopping Directory
	The Australian Mechanical Organ Society site, which includes PDF versions of their newsletters.
	The Musical Box Society International site.
	The new web site of the KDV Kring Van Draaiorgelvrienden.
	The site of the Foxtail Group - home of the excellent Mechanical Music Digest. Lots of news about all aspects of mechanical music.
	Musica Mecanica - Street organs, automatic pianos, music boxes, with many photos and music. You will find a comprehensive list of specialized Museums and Associations throughout the world, an agenda of collectors meetings and events, descriptions of instruments, and many links to other mechanical music Web sites. En Français, in English, und auf Deutsch!
	Carousel Organ Association of America Devoted to enjoying, preserving, and sharing knowledge of all outdoor mechanical musical instruments; including band, fair, and street organs, calliopes, and hand-cranked organs of all sizes.
	Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' Association (AMICA)
Associazione Italiana Musica Meccanica	Associazione Italiana Musica Meccanica (AMMI) Italian, French, and German languages only
	Ed Gaida Player pianos, reed organs, tower clocks, chimes, band organs, music boxes and other mechanical music topics.
Player Piano Restorations Illustrated	Player Piano Restorations Illustrated, dedicated to all people interested in the restoration of Antique Player Pianos.
	Roller Organ Website by Todd Augsburger. A comprehensive source of Roller (Cob) Organ information, including a complete list of Rollers.
	Argentinian Barrel Organ Museum - La Salvia: Entire collection of all the models of barrel organs, manufactured in Buenos Aires by La Salvia family. Singular in Latin America, the integral building and creation of its own designs and models is a distinctive feature in La Salvia's workshop.
	FUNNYFAIR.COM This is an online virtual Funfair, the first in the world. This a "must-see"- makes extensive use of Macromedia Flash technology
	Mechanical Music Press Publisher of Art Reblitz' book "The Golden Age of Automatic Musical Instruments," with hundreds of color pictures, historical & technical information, collecting stories, history of automatic music, many interesting links & more.
	Collectics. Large, eclectic mix of consignment shop, antiques & collectibles mall, bookstore, reference information, arts & events magazine, collecting web directory, and museum featuring Art Deco, Art Nouveau, and Arts & Crafts design 1890-1935.
	Doyle International - Carousel and fairground band organs and related content for your enjoyment.
	New England Mechanical Music The website of Roger Wiegand.
	De Sint Bernard - Bursens street organ, with many photos and liturature about the Bursens factory. Also a lot of information about the collection of Johnny Claes. Flemish languare site.
Faites de la Musique Mécanique	Faites de la Musique Mécanique. This association was founded with the aim of maintaining and encouraging the cultural tradition of fair and street organs through the organization of musical events. French languare site.
	DeBence Antique Music World Franklin, Pennsylvania See and hear over 100 old-time automatic musical instruments.