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manubrio

English translation: barrel organ / hurdy-gurdy / player piano / pianola

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Spanish term or phrase:manubrio
English translation: barrel organ / hurdy-gurdy / player piano / pianola
Entered by: MPGS

12:46 Jan 17, 2017
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / history text on the Costa Brava
Spanish term or phrase: manubrio
I'm stuck on the term 'manubrio' here in a newspaper from 1933, any help appreciated!

Un año donde todas las actividades de la Fiesta Mayor de la Virgen del Carmen fueron costeadas por los vecinos de S'Agaró y gratuitas para todos: verbena con farolillos japoneses en la plaza de la Rosaleda, baile de verbena amenizada por la Orquestina Guíxols y el clásico ***manubrio***, fuegos artificiales, títeres, puesta en marcha de globos, sardanas (La Ola, 15-07-1933).
Lindsay Spratt
France
Local time: 23:07
barrel organ / hurdy-gurdy
Explanation:
organillo
http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=orga...
:-)

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Note added at 12 mins (2017-01-17 12:59:03 GMT)
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'manivela' is the 'crank' to play the 'organillo'
:-)

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Note added at 5 days (2017-01-23 08:43:45 GMT) Post-grading
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gracias a todos :-)
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MPGS
Local time: 23:07
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4 +4barrel organ / hurdy-gurdy
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4barrel organ
Carol Gullidge
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barrel organ


Explanation:
the only feasible possibility offered by my trusty Collins. But it seems pretty likely...

Carol Gullidge
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
barrel organ / hurdy-gurdy


Explanation:
organillo
http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=orga...
:-)

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Note added at 12 mins (2017-01-17 12:59:03 GMT)
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'manivela' is the 'crank' to play the 'organillo'
:-)

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Note added at 5 days (2017-01-23 08:43:45 GMT) Post-grading
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gracias a todos :-)

MPGS
Local time: 23:07
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 11
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Carol Gullidge: yep! I don't normally rely too much on Wordreference for obvious reasons, but that doesn't mean that it can never be right!
2 mins
  -> thanks :-)
agree  patinba
1 hr
  -> thank you, patinba. Best. :-)
agree  philgoddard: Wordreference is a good dictionary, though the discussion forums aren't very reliable.
1 hr
  ->  thank you, Phil. Best. :-)
agree  Robert Carter: Short for "órgano de manubrio" I would imagine http://dle.rae.es/?id=OHwIe1k
2 hrs
  -> thank you, Robert. Best. :-)
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29 mins
Reference

Reference information:
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_verbena_de_la_Paloma
Cuadro tercero [editar] - Ricardo de la Vega
El libreto explica muy bien cómo debe presentarse este cuadro del desenlace:

Una calle. En el centro, y de arriba abajo, el salón de baile que ahora se pone en las verbenas, adornado con arañas, faroles, guirnaldas, escudos, banderas y demás. En el foro está el ***piano de manubrio***, que toca varias piezas. Las dos aceras de la calle quedan libres para la circulación. Casas de varios aspectos a un lado y al otro. En la primera de la izquierda del espectador hay un comercio de sedas con el rótulo correspondiente. En el salón de baile hay bancos de madera todo alrededor, llenos de gente que presencia el baile. Parejas de distintas clases aparecen bailando al compás del piano de manubrio. Las aceras están llenas de gente que mira el baile. En las barandillas de madera que forman el salón se ven algunos Guardias de orden público. A la puerta del comercio de sedas aparecen sentados en sillas don Sebastián, Doña Severiana (su mujer) y Doña Mariquita, amiga de ambos. Teresa (sobrina de aquellos) y Candelaria (hija de doña Mariquita) bailando con dos jóvenes horteras. Mucha animación, don Sebastián aplaude y jalea a las parejas que van pasando muy agarradas, como ahora se estila

https://www.google.com.jm/search?q="manubrio piano&rlz=1C1TS...

http://instrumentosantiguos.es/restauracion-de-un-piano-a-ma...

Organillo - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organillo
El organillo es un instrumento musical portátil inventado a principios del siglo XIX en Inglaterra. Es un instrumento que puede ser tocado con los piés. Para producir música solo hace falta girar un manubrio que hace mover ... de manejo, fue un instrumento popular que convivió con el piano e incluso con los gramófonos,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_organ
A street organ is an automatic mechanical pneumatic organ designed to be mobile enough to play its music in the street. The two most commonly seen types are the smaller German and the larger Dutch street organ.

Taña Dalglish
Jamaica
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PRO pts in category: 32
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