Ruth 36-X Fairground Organ Plays Rare B.A.B And Molinari 78 Keyless Book Music

[@aaronb5060]

There's something about the American arranged books that just brings a smile to my face! This Ruth has a fantastic, powerful sound, which when combined with these fun arrangements is truly something to behold!

[@andrewbarrett1537]

I have heard the "unidentified one-step" (song) at 21:30 before. It is on a cassette tape the late Stephen Kent Goodman made me of his "Seeburg Celesta Super Orchestrion" (actually a Seeburg MO) he built up, playing Wurlitzer Mandolin PianOrchestra music via MIDI. Unfortunately, however, this tune is ALSO unidentified on this cassette (he sent it to me in like 2011 hoping I could ID the tunes, and I IDed several of them). I *believe*, after checking my text file with notes on the tracks, that it is Mandolin PianOrchestra roll 776, tune 2. I just spent about 2 hours on the Indiana University "IN Harmony" public domain sheet music archive, looking thru 1913-1915 march songs and one-step songs by major publishers (Remick, Shapiro, Stern, Feist, Harry Von Tilzer, Broadway Music Co, Will Rossiter, Harold Rossiter etc) but no dice _yet_. When I find it, I'll post again here.

[@Musicmany2k]

One rare and beautifully restored Ruth!

[@andrewbarrett1537]

I just ID'ed the march song (you might call it a one-step song) on the Molinari book (Gebruder Bruder 104 scale) at 21:30 : It is the Irving Berlin Song "I'm Going Back to the Farm", copyrighted and published in 1915 (do now public domain). This is the same unidentified song on the PianOrchestra roll I mentioned earlier. I was able to identify it using a combination of two methods: 1. The end of the chorus of the song quotes Berlin's earlier "rube" song "This is the Life", so I figured it was another song about a farmer, or something. Turns out this song is the follow-up song written to capitalize on the success of "This is the Life". 2. Wurlitzer used many of the same tune line-ups for both their 5-tune PianOrchestra rolld and 5-tune APP rolls, and so I figured this was certainly on an APP roll (probably in a different arrangement) from the same general era as the unknown PianOrchestra roll. After all, Wurlitzer shared a common pool of music arrangers, sheet music etc in their arranging department. I didn't have high hopes of finding it because there are still many gaps in the PianOrchestra and APP rollographies, due to lack of known surviving rolls (or catalogs / bulletins listing them) for certain roll numbers. But I found it! Here's the sheet music from the Lester S. Levy sheet music collection at Johns Hopkins University: levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection/077/143

[@bietebouwer]

Impressive!

[@koasterkav2758]

I would love to see and hear this organ!

[@DavidBurgessMechanicalMusic]

Very excellent arrangement and book on Gavin's Ruth! I just wish I could go visit him, but I'm not going alone...

[@j6sj7]

Gives me chills.

[@rexoliver7780]

Would like to watch them”play”on this organ Have seen the band figures play on other videos.

[@MechanicalMusics]

@@rexoliver7780 all I have are audio recordings of these - but other videos are posted.