In the Netherlands, Belgium and France (Germany also ?) you can find
tens (if not hundreds for the past years) of recordings on cassette,
vinyl-disc and today on CD.  Not only from Netherlands street organs,
but also of collections of Mechanical Music Museums and carillons,
for example.

The KDV (Neth. Assn. of Friends of the Street-organs) has a special
postal order-service for the sale of recordings.

I suppose they sell also to non-members.  And they must be used to
selling to foreign countries.  I you are interested in more information
on this service, you may e-mail/fax at my address.  If there is a
general interest I'll put more information on the MMD.

In one of the older MMD's there was an offer to buy (by credit card) a
copy of "Le Ludion, 20 ans d'amour et printemps" with several French
(street) organs and singers.  I received it promptly after ordering by
e-mail.

One of the more curious CD's from my (small) private collection is
the CD: 'Cien Anos de Tradicion' -- a Cuban street-organ and (separate)
percussion instruments play cunbias, merengues, mambos, etc.  They
visited the past years the Netherlands.  Unfortunately, I was not able
to visit their concerts.

The record has Nr.: 4003 KCD and is a collaboration between PAN-
records and the KIT (Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen; the Neth.
Royal Tropical Institute).  Recording dates: 11 and 12 September 1995.

On the sleeve is written: 'To receive an extensive catalogue of
PAN-records, please send two International Reply Coupons to: Pan
Records, P.O: Box 155, 2500 AD LEIDEN (The Netherlands), phone
+31.71.521 94 79;  fax +31.71.522 68 69.'

If you are interested to have the address of the KIT, please contact me.
(They seem to have a range of recordings of 'ethnomusic').  In the
Netherlands this 'Wereldmuziek' (Music of the World) is quite popular.

Also in one of the older MMD's I gave information on several CD's (and
the availability of them) of the Utrecht-Museum: 'Van Speelklok tot
Pierement'.

Several museums in Western Europe sell CD's of recordings of their
instruments, e.g., the wonderful Museum of Les Gets (in the French
Alps) is selling CD's of their 'Orgue Philharmonique Aeolian a jeu
automatique'.

The church in this small town did not have an organ.  Since some years
an Aeolian Organ (1910) is installed in the church.  Now the not only
can the Mass be accompanied by a manually played organ, but also
jazz-concerts with some of the more then 700 rolls are possible.
I recommend a visit to the MM-museum (and the church) in this town.

Greetings from the Netherlands,

Wybe van der Wal
Rijswijk/ The Netherlands
fax: + 31 70 319 10 61
http://www.caiw.nl/~wvdwal