I'm with Jim Welty all the way on this subject.  I would only say that
I think the dissemination of historically incorrect information is a
bit more worrisome to me than prices that don't take into account an
instrument's real value.  I say this because perhaps somebody could
make up some money another way, but once the wrong information has been
internalized and repeated by someone, it's "out there" forever.

Someone who read the wrong information about this organ in 2010 could
pass that information on to the organ's new owners in 2060, say, and
this genuine Artizan could go down in history as a Stinson organ with
an Artizan front or as any of the other alternate identities it's been
assigned by wayward comment-leavers.

This is why I think it's important to kindly but gently correct all the
"facts" being posted on YouTube.  Even some errors that many would
regard as "little things" ought to be corrected to make sure they're
not passed down.  The one really frequent obnoxious poster, for example,
often misspells "Wurlitzer" as "WurliTzer" and Doug Hershberger's name
as "Herschburger."  Both of these spelling errors ought to be corrected
as much as any other fact, or maybe in a hundred years some people will
think that one of the largest American mechanical music company's name
was spelled like its logo design and that the man who operated the old
Wurlitzer perforators was Mr. "Herschburger."  We won't be around to
correct these errors in the future, so there's no time like the
present.

Finally, I must say I got a belly laugh out of what Jim wrote on the
video of his Artizan in response to yet another inane query.

  "This is a 1927 Artizan A-2, modified by Wurlitzer. It appears to
  be an ordinary band organ, but it has the power to cloud men's minds.
  This results in people asking stupid questions and making incorrect
  statements with no factual research, then posting them on YouTube."

Amen, Jim.  I wonder if only the North Tonawanda companies' organs are
imbued with those magical common sense-effacing properties or if other
organs have them too?!  ;)

TJ Fisher
Washington, DC, USA