8 thoughts on “ Organ Grinder ”

1. Sep 24,  · Organ grinder definition: An organ grinder was an entertainer who played a barrel organ in the streets. | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples.

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2. Organ-grinder definition is - one that cranks a hand organ; especially: a street musician who operates a barrel organ.

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3. Organ grinder definition, an itinerant street musician who earns a living by playing a hand organ or hurdy-gurdy. See more.

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4. organ grinder definition: 1. a person who earns money in the street by playing a musical instrument that is operated by. Learn more.

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5. The organ grinder himself has been the subject of adoration as well as contempt. Until the invention of the phonograph and radio, the organ grinder brought the only music that many people, especially the poorer folks in cities, heard. That is why illustrations of organ grinders often show children or adults dancing around him.

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6. ‘Charles Dickens, among others, got organ-grinders banned from the streets of London once upon a time.’ ‘New trades and entertainments became dependent on resourceful immigrants from poorer countries: in the early 19th century, Italian organ-grinders .

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7. Definition of the organ grinder's monkey in the Idioms Dictionary. the organ grinder's monkey phrase. What does the organ grinder's monkey expression mean? .

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8. Sep 16,  · The townmusician of fairytaletown Ebeltoft, Denmark.

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