Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk Ruth und Sohn Band Organ

[@watermelonlalala]

I was hoping to find an old 60s film with sound of this carousel.

[@tregnier279]

I always have thought it interesting how the "Mighty WurliTzer" organs were copied almost exactly from other organs by competing manufacturers. I still think the WurliTzer 157 facade they put on this organ was horribly inappropriate.

[@KawhackitaRag]

What's ironic is that the Wurlitzer 157 organ and facade itself was copied from a special-model 57-key Gavioli facade which Gavioli apparently made for Dentzel carousels. There is one known surviving Gavioli of this type, and it is located on the Rocky Springs Park carousel in Pennsylvania (this is the carousel which was at Dollywood for a while).

[@finntrautsch2065]

Great Pianists

[@KawhackitaRag]

Correct! It was copied from the 65-keyless model. In this case it was an almost exact copy even down to the original scale. The Wurlitzer 146A and 146B late-model facades are copied from the Wilhelm Bruder Sohne model 79 facade, but that organ itself is a Wurlitzer scale and design. Many other organs are copied from cylinder organs: the 104 and 105 from the 17; the 125 from the 18; the 110 from the 19; 130 from the 20; 150 from the 20-B; and 120 from the 21.

[@tregnier279]

If the facade was missing, why not replace it with one styled after the original, or at least, other Ruth Organs? Stinson seems to have a thing for WurliTzer 157 facades.

[@tregnier279]

Yes, all WurliTzer facades were basically rectangles, bu the 153 and 165 had large, rounded carvings around them. All I'm saying, a facade, even if not totally accurate, in the heavily carved, rounded style of Ruth Organs would have been more appropriate.

[@tregnier279]

Don't forget, the 165 was copied from the Gebr Bruder Apollo Orchestor (I believe that's right.)

[@andrewlardieri4110]

Tune?

[@tregnier279]

It's a Ruth Organ, so it would have been a sorta rounded, organic looking facade covered in heavy Rococo-styled scroll carvings. I've never liked the WurliTzer 157 facades. Too square and bulky.

[@tregnier279]

@koasterkav >>"Get over it." >>posting a reply to something that happened 10 months ago I dunno, maybe you'd have a point about me being a stupid whiner or whatever if I'd been arguing this for the past 10 months, but I haven't (in fact I'd forgotten all about it), so... yeah.

[@finntrautsch2065]

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