COME TO THE FAIR-OLD TIME CAROUSEL MUSIC VOLUME 1  

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Come to the Fair features the beautiful Wurlitzer 157

Look at The Wurlitzer Style 157

The Queen of Kings Island is a magnificent Wurlitzer Duplex Orchestral Organ Style #157. It was originally used on a carousel at Ocean Grove, New Jersey. It was purchased in 1964 by Paul Eakins and completely restored. Playing #165 Wurlitzer rolls, it has a double tracker system, furnishing continuous music. When one roll finishes playing, the other starts and the first one rewinds.

The beautiful light cream front is heavily carved and the panels and shutter screens are painted with landscape scenes. The newel posts are painted to resemble marble columns.

The following instruments are played: Bass - 6 wood trombones; 6 stopped diapason pipes; 6 stopped octave daipason pipes. Accompaniments - 10 stopped flute pipes; 10 open flute pipes; 10 open piccolo pipes; 10 open piccolo pipes. Melody - 44 violin pipes; 22 octave pipes; 22 piccolo pipes; 22 open flute pipes; 22 stopped flute pipes; 16 bar bells. Trumpets - 14 wood trumpets; 14 wood clarinets. Traps - bass drum; snare drum; cymbal; triangle; double castanets; tympani. Automatic stops - 1 for bells; 1 for swell and wood trombones. Draw stops - 1 for wood trombones; 1 for wood trumpets; 1 for violins; 1 for flutes; 1 for piccolos.The Queen of Kings Island stands nearly 8½ feet tall, over 12 feet wide and nearly 4 feet deep. 

 

Little Annie Rooney, After the Ball, Maggie Murphy's Home, National Emblem, Skater's Waltz, With Trumpet and Drum, Tesora Mio, Our Dictator, Love's Dream After the Ball, Wedding of the Winds, The Blue Danube, Hands Across the Sea, Impassioned Dream, Over the Waves, The Diplomat, Come Take a Trip on My Airship, American Patrol, Helema Polka, Ben Hur Chariot Race, Bostom Commandry, Roses From the South, Me and My Shadow,Hula Lou, Just Like a Butterfly, Rosie O' Reilly.

LISTEN TO A SAMPLE

  "NATIONAL EMBLEM"

  "HANDS ACROSS THE SEA"

  "ROSIE O' REILLY"

  "BEN HUR CHARIOT RACE"

 

 

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