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Mechanical Music Videos on YouTube
By Dan Robinson

Thanks to D. L. Bullock for the URLs of mechanical music videos on
YouTube!  Here are a few nice ones I found featuring carousels with
live band organs playing.

This is taken by a rider on the Glen Echo, Maryland, Dentzel carousel,
with its Wurlitzer 165 band organ playing some of the tune "Nola."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE6FI4RNPsc
Attachment thumbnail Here's the Griffith Park Spillman carousel in Los Angeles, Calif., with its Stinson 165 (model 87) band organ playing "Charley My Boy." The whole tune is here -- except for the last note! (The organ playing is the one outside the carousel, not the North Tonawanda organ in the center.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snWrTShcR8g
Attachment thumbnail This one is the newly-carved Coolidge Park carousel in Chattanooga, Tenn., with its Stinson 165 (model 57) playing some of "We Must Have A Song To Remember." (Next to the organ is a small mock-up facade resembling a Wurlitzer 165.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wuC95rKBNE
Attachment thumbnail Here is the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk (Calif.) Looff carousel with its Ruth organ (165 rolls or MIDI of same) playing part of "I Went To Your Wedding." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZc09qDZarg
Attachment thumbnail This is taken on the Bushnell Park Stein & Goldstein carousel in Hartford, Conn., with its Wurlitzer 153 playing the end of "While Strolling Through The Park One Day" and some of "In The Good Old Summertime." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRhhFR5OLjU&NR
Attachment thumbnail And here's a short clip of the Prospect Park Carmel carousel in Brooklyn, N.Y., with its Wurlitzer 153 playing "Wedding Of The Winds." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MXHBI-lrpM
Attachment thumbnail With the exception of Santa Cruz, the band organs are visible in all of these videos. Also, it's not a band organ, but here's an Aeolian Pianola playing "Blue Skies" (complete). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG-i652novo
Attachment thumbnail On YouTube there are also numerous videos of other carousels (some hand-carved and some fiberglass) that are using recorded music at them. In several, recognizable recordings from Carrousel Music, Marion Roehl Recordings, and Klavier Recordings can be heard. And how about that YouTube? A couple of guys started a web site where people can post videos, and now the guys are billionaires because the site was bought by Google! (Well, maybe that's oversimplifying it a bit.) Dan Robinson Rochester, New York

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