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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



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