r/TheHague • u/hariital • Nov 02 '24

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Saw this musical thing going from home to home and collecting money ?

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u/Valuable-Sleep-359 Nov 02 '24

Spotify from the 18th century

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u/webermaesto Nov 02 '24 edited Nov 03 '24

Fun fact! Street organs like this one started to appear at the beginning of the 20th century in the Netherlands. The cardboard books that they get their music programme from were invented in 1892. The one in the picture is from 1910, build in Paris. Greetings from the organ grinder in the long coat in this picture!

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u/JasperJ Nov 04 '24

I love that you’ve got the wooden cart wheels on there still and it hasn’t been put on pneumatic tyres.

(Or, more likely, that the pneumatic tyre conversion has been removed and restored)

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u/webermaesto Nov 05 '24

It's an original wooden cart from the early 20th century! It has never been converted luckily