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Mechanical Music Mistakes in the Movies
By Tony Marsico

Hi all,  I've finally been drawn into the discussion of Old West
saloons.  While in a customer's house one day he had his big-screen
TV on with an old Western film on.

In one scene, some kind of show comes to town, and there on the back of
a horse-drawn buckboard, supposedly in the middle 1800s, is a Wurlitzer
or Artizan band organ with the facade off of it merrily "playing" away.

The bass drum beater was mounted in front of the bass drum, I guess to
lend realism to the fact that it was playing.  Obviously the sound was
dubbed in.  Never found out the title of the movie.

Tony Marsico


(Message sent Tue 31 Jul 2001, 12:44:19 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

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