There is a Wurlitzer 153 band organ at Nunley's Carousel,
Baldwin, Long Island (now closed, owned by the county, pending
decisi on on where and how to operate). There are several in New
York City: Central Park, Prospect Park, Forest Park, and Flushing
Meadows, a big old fellow, playing 81-key B.A.B. rolls on one
tracker and Wurlitzer 165 on the other. Bob Conant should step
in here and refine these data and add about Binghamton area
organs.
BTW, the Ontario Beach Park carousel band organ in Rochester,
N.Y. (at Charlotte) is not an old restored organ. It is a
Stinson "Wurlitzer" 165 band organ made by Don Stinson ago for
Monroe County Parks Department, which operates the carousel (a
very old, nice Dentzel restored by Bill Finkenstein. But for a
carousel that will knock your socks off, go to Seabreeze and
wonder at their all-hand-carved new machine replacing the one
that they accidentally burned down on March 31, 1994, while
making roof repairs. I hear that Dynamic Recordings, which made
the three recordings of their late Wurlitzer 165 (and has more
recordings of that organ in master form but not yet released) was
out there earlier this month making recordings from the new
organ, which was made by Verbeeck in Belgium to Wurlitzer 165
specifications. The organ has no facade yet. Seabreeze is
commissioning a replica 165 facade this winter, if all goes as
planned. They were down here taking measurements and pictures
from the Glen Echo Wurlitzer 165 last month.
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