Hershey park carousel 2003

[@CBF1]

Band Organ Rolls playing in this video are 13164 and 13062. Tunes from 13164: Ending of "Forever" "Wedding Bells are Breaking Up that Old Gang of Mine" Tune from 13062 at the end is Dardanella.

[@khmam]

I love how you lowercased words that should be lowercase.

[@Wurlitzer157]

@Grim0523 Hi! Incase your wondering how it works, it plays off of a paper roll (the 150 roll) and has 41 keys. The organ has 3 wooden trombones; 3 8-foot stopped diapason; 3 4-foot open diapason; 3 2-foot stopped diapason. Accompaniment: 9 stopped flute pipes; 18 violin pipes. 16 stopped flute pipes; 16 octave violin; 15 wooden trumpets; 15 cello pipes; 32 violin; 15 open flutes; 15 stopped pipes; and 16 bell bars. The organ also has a bass drum, cymbal and snare.

[@userunavailable3095]

I had more than a few rides on that when I was a kid. Glad to see it still going.

[@Grim0523]

@M38Ruth You and a couple of other respondents seem to know a thing or two about this organ. I was at Hershey last week with my family and I can't get it out of my head. They had it playing Christmas music for the Candy Cane Lane attraction. I wish there was a recording available of it playing those songs! I want to know everything I can about the Wurlitzer 153. What's the best resource?

[@Wurlitzer157]

funny how Kings Island is advertising on my band organ video... gimme a break!

[@whoisthisguy724]

@anglerfly The glockenspiel worked in 2007 when i went. I didn't bring back any recordings though. They really need to take better care of their organ!

[@spikeworks]

They recently did work on it im pretty sure. it was taken out and replaced with speakers for a little but its back now

[@CBF1]

@@spikeworks That happened when they were preparing for it's centennial in 2019. They have always taken care of their organ for a long long time except for the bell bars for a time, they work now and have been throughout most of it's lift. The Hershey Wurlitzer 153 is serial numbered 3839 and was first delivered to a much smaller carousel(can't remember where). Only some time around the time when hershey got their carousel(Philadelphia Toboggan Company #47, 1919) the 153 ended up on it. When the Hershey Carousel was first built in Baltimore it had a german Bruder 107. Who the hell knows if that Bruder still exists at all? There are pictures that show the carousel in it's original home with the original band organ, I have one of such pictures.

[@spikeworks]

@@CBF1 Very lucky that you have a pic

[@CBF1]

@@spikeworks Yup although it's not the direct original photograph from PTC, it's a Google image of it. Still though I am happy to have a historical picture of an excellent carousel.

[@Wurlitzer157]

Thanks for the song names

[@khmam]

I used to be scared of this carousel when I was little.

[@CBF1]

Heh, when I first discovered band organs, I didn't know what they were... all I knew back then(which was 2011) that it was too noisy for my poor little 5-year-old ears at the time. I used to be creeped out by carousels too until I watched Themeparkfanatic's Idlewild Carousel video and suddenly grew attached to the music. Since then I've been in cahoots with band organ music and still am as will I most likely always be.

[@khmam]

@@CBF1 I slowly grew interest in them in 2019, then I entered The World of Mechanical Music in March of 2021.

[@CBF1]

@@khmam I'd say I became addicted in 2019. I had grown attached in 2014 and 2017 but it didn't last. Only since 2019 have I constantly been listening to band organs... except the first few months of 2020 when I listened to music boxes instead. I got back into band organs again shortly after lol.

[@khmam]

@@CBF1 I also started an addiction in 2019, but 2021 was the year I fully grew into mechanical music.

[@CBF1]

@@khmam It didn't take long for me to grow completely addicted lol. Now I daydream about band organs literally every day...

[@CBF1]

I believe that is Roll 13062 or what roll is it?

[@ivancoley11]

4:01 the babies were crying because they wish they were on the carousel too

[@whoisthisguy724]

Both of the MGR Museums 105s sound terrible! I would think that since they're a museum, they'd take better care of them.

[@whoisthisguy724]

I know their 104 is totally silent, along with the 105 at the Please Touch Museum. At the very least, they should install a coin acceptor of them!

[@michaelaharding8435]

whoisthisguy724 Cc

[@CBF1]

Hershey has the best 153. Hershey's carousel is now 100!

[@khmam]

I couldn't agree more!

[@CBF1]

@@khmam I wouldn't say that any more lol... I wrote that comment when my liking for Wurlitzer Band organs only started to become an addiction. I'd say the best sounding Wurlitzer 153's on KZbin are Bushnell Park's, Joe Hilferty's(now owned by Jesse Koehl according to Eldridge Park, it played for the carousel there for a few weeks, Jesse wanted people to enjoy it publicly), Matthew Jaro's, Cedar Point's, William E. Black's, and several other 153's. Hershey's 153 does sound pretty good though, a little shrill though and not always in tune.

[@khmam]

@@CBF1 Black's is the best one for sure!

[@CBF1]

@@khmam Yup, certainly one of the best I've heard so far!

[@Wurlitzer157]

Exactly!