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The carousel in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, New York, is an
Illions carousel that once turned in Coney Island and moved to Flushing
Corona Park for the 1964 Worlds Fair.  The organ on the carousel is a
80-key Gebr. Bruder Elite Orchestra Apollo organ which hasn't played in
many years and is in need of extensive restoration.

The music on the carousel that is being played is a CD or a cassette
of songs from the children's television show, "Barney", and that music
begins to aggravate you after a short time.  The band organ should
really be restored since it is a really big and spectacular organ.

If someone is interested in fixing the organ e-mail me at
<wurlitzer146@cs.com> and I will send you information on how to contact
the people at the carousel in Corona Park.

Michael McNamara

 [ Does the repairman get paid?  That makes a difference, you know!  ;-)
 [ Tim Trager wrote about this 80-key organ in 000319 MMDigest, and
 [ said that the City of New York provides little maintenance money.
 [
 [ Articles by Jeff Alterman about the 65- & 69-key Gebrueder
 [ Bruder "Elite Orchestra Apollo" organs are presented at
 [   http://mmd.foxtail.com/Tech/alterman_GebrBruder.html and
 [   http://mmd.foxtail.com/Pictures/coneyIslandApollo.html
 [ -- Robbie