Hello there again, Yes, there surely are other organ grinders in
Vienna. My point was only that Oliver Maar is the only one actually
making a living of it!
The Harmonipan at the Heurigen "Zum Werkelmann" belongs to the owner
of the Heurigen, Wolfgang Geissler, son of Otto Geissler, who was the
one setting up a mechanical music museum in the bohemian Prater and
also did quite a bit of the preparations for the first MEMUSI organ
rallies to take place at all.
This Harmonipan, e.g., only plays at this particular Heurigen; the
_income_, though, comes from the Heurigen, not the organ grinding.
See my point?
greetings by(e) InK - Ingmar Krause
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