Chamber Barrel Organ with 12 wooden pipes playing 8 tunes - early 1800's

Purchased December 2023 along with a job lot of nine assorted musical boxes.
It arrived in mint condition and worked perfectly mechanically. It even has the original key for the lock.
However, there was some air 'leakage' from one or more pipes and there was a droning sound, so the tunes were indistinct.
​Fellow restorer Anna Svenson agreed to restore this for me (26/11/2025) and it's now back in full working order (March 2026)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ...
BARREL ORGAN. A musical instrument, of all others the most easy of manipulation, as it requires nothing beyond the regular rotary motion of a handle to keep it playing. In some examples even this power is applied mechanically, either by means of clock-work, or by weights. These instruments are of the most various capacities, from the simple street organ—the 'barrel organ' of ordinary parlance—to large and complicated machines representing the full orchestra. But the principle of action is the same in all. A wooden cylinder, or barrel, placed horizontally, and armed on its outside circumference with brass staples or pins, slowly revolves, in the direction from back to front; and in doing so the pins raise certain trigger-shaped keys, which correspond with simple mechanism communicating with valves that on being opened allow wind to enter the required pipes. In this way either melody or harmony is produced. The wind is produced by bellows which are worked by the same motion which turns the barrel. The most simple kind of instrument of this nature is the small 'bird organ,' used, as its name implies, for teaching bulfinches to pipe—which plays the simplest music in melody only.

My learned friend Anna Svenson says:
"That is a nice little Chamber Barrel Organ which was made in the British Isles.  They are sometimes called bird organs or serinettes but yours is slightly different from the French serinettes made around Mirecourt described in your Wikipedia article which have metal pipes and wooden keys rather than the brass ones with the wood block at the back."

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We are not sure about whether the winder handle is the original as the lid has to be open in order to play it but you do need to see the barrel so that you stop in the correct place. 

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One of the tunes before restoration

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Below are the eight tunes in numerical order. If you recognise any of the tunes, please let me know.
I know the names of two of them Buy a Broom and The Dashing White Sergeant from Scotland but, at the moment, I don't know which they are ...

Tune 1
​Dashing White Sergeant

Tune 2

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Tune 3

Tune 4

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Tune 5
Buy a Broom or O du Lieber Augustin
Did you Ever See a Lassie is also set to the same tune.

Tune 6

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Tune 7

Tune 8

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