Jan Kijlstra's note on band organs in Cuba interested me particularly
because I have wondered for years why Wurlitzer created at least 5 style
165 rolls of Cuban danzon music. This is remarkable because it made no
other ethnic 165 rolls that we know of.  I have speculated, without hard
information, that Wurlitzer may have sold a few of its larger organs to
Cuba and so felt the need to supply Cuban music for them.

Only one of those 5 rolls survive, and it is has an interesting peculi-
arity in that in the middle of most (maybe all) of the purely Cuban tunes
Wurlitzer stuck a snippet of an American tune from one of its other
rolls -- almost as if the company were advertising "coming attractions."
Thus in the middle of the danzon "Corralito" one hears a bit of Mary
Earl's "Beautiful Ohio" plain as can be.

 [ Editors notes:
 [
 [ The arrangers worked largely from the band "stock" orchestrations
 [ in that era, and "Tin Pan Alley" routinely placed quotes from other
 [ songs of the same publishing house in the middle of the orchestration.
 [ On rolls and on records it says, "Introducing...<Beautiful Ohio>".
 [ Not that "Beautiful Ohio", or whatever, was owned by the same US
 [ publisher that had "Corralito" -- it's simply that the arrangers were
 [ accustomed to this practice, and enjoyed the musical diversion.
 [
 [ And they occasionally enjoyed a musician's joke:  in the middle
 [ of "Jones' Law Blues" (protesting Prohibition) the band plays,
 [ "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You!"
 [
 [ -- Robbie