We have put another old organ grinder poem up on our site, this one
not quite as depressing as the last one from Harper's.  We have included
five images, including a real tenement grinder photo and the art that
accompanied the poem when it appeared in Puck in 1894.

You can get to it by going to the site http://www.floraco.com/organs
and going to the history page. The link to the Harper's article is there
as well, about half-way down the page.

Is the vitriol and self-promotion all spent?  The Digest seems kind of
puny these days...

Brian Flora
Organ Builder
http://www.floraco.com/organs/

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