Busy Carnival Carousel

The spectacular array of colors that glow in a blurry rotating mass is just enough to set your eyes blazing with joy. Every moment you stand still is an incredible act of self control, because holding back from the overwhelming need to fling yourself onto the most fun ride in the universe takes the most superhuman of powers. Waiting your turn, you are hypnotized by the smiling faces that spin past and spray the scene with laughter unparalleled. A carousel, or merry-go-round, is an amusement ride consisting of a rotating circular platform with seats for riders. The "seats" are traditionally in the form of rows of wooden horses or other animals mounted on posts, many of which are moved up and down via gearwork to simulate galloping, to the accompaniment of looped circus music. This leads to one of the alternative names, the galloper. Other popular names are roundabout and flying horses. The earliest known depiction of a carousel is in a Byzantine bas-relief dating to around 500 A.D., which depicts riders in baskets suspended from a central pole. The word carousel originates from the Italian garosello and Spanish carosella ("little battle"), used by crusaders to describe a combat preparation exercise and game played by Turkish and Arabian horsemen in the 12th century. In a sense this early device could be considered a cavalry training mechanism; it prepared and strengthened the riders for actual combat as they wielded their swords at the mock enemies. European Crusaders discovered this device and brought the idea back to their own lands. A carousel was also a training device for the ring-tilt, consisting of wooden horses suspended from arms branching from a central pole. Riders aimed to spear rings situated around the circumference as the carousel was moved by a man, horse, or mule. This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=126661