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Wurlitzer 105 Band Organ (late model, Christmas decorated), Memphis Zoo. Wurlitzer 125 Band Organ (1924), Pullen Park Carousel. The early model 105 would appear identical to this, but without the drums. Wurlitzer 165 Band Organ with model 157 facade, American Treasure Tour. "The Mammoth" Wurlitzer Military Band Organ, 160, American Treasure ...
The Pullen Park Carousel Wurlitzer 125 Band Organ in Raleigh, North Carolina. After the United States Government imposed high import tariffs on street and fairground organ importation in 1892, [11] Wurlitzer began producing mechanical organs. Most were small barrel organs, playing from a pinned barrel and powered by either steam or cranked by ...
The music on the carousel is provided by a 1916 Wurlitzer Military Band Organ, Style #153, one of the oldest Wurlitzer #153s in existence. It is a four-abreast carousel, meaning that it has four rows of animals, and it travels in a counter-clockwise direction. Over 1,500 lights decorate the ride.
The Pullen Park Carousel is a classic wood carousel at Pullen Park in Raleigh, North Carolina. Built in 1900, the carousel contains 52 hand-carved basswood animals, 2 chariots (or sleighs), 18 large gilded mirrors and canvas panels and a Wurlitzer #125 band organ made in 1924 by the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company of North Tonawanda, New York.
The Frati & Co. Band Organ at the Lakeside Park Carousel in Port Dalhousie, ON. A fairground organ is a musical organ covering the wind and percussive sections of an orchestra. Originated in Paris, France, it was designed for use in commercial fairground settings to provide loud music to accompany rides and attractions, mostly merry-go-rounds.
February 27, 1987. Broad Ripple Park Carousel [a] is an antique carousel in The Children's Museum of Indianapolis. It was installed in 1917 at an amusement park near the White River in Indianapolis, Indiana, where it remained until the building housing it collapsed in 1956. The ride's mechanism was destroyed, but the animals were relatively ...
The C.W. Parker Carousel Museum, also known as the Leavenworth Carousel Museum, is located in Leavenworth, Kansas and is one of several museums sponsored by the Leavenworth Historical Museum Association. Opened in 2005, the building houses carousels that are historically registered, as well as a C.W. Parker cylinder piano, an Artizan A-X-1 band ...
The Paragon Park Carousel (PTC #85) is a historic carousel at 1 Wharf Avenue in Hull, Massachusetts. Built in 1928 by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, it is one of the state's only surviving four-wide carousels, and is the only surviving element of the Paragon Park amusement park. The carousel was listed on the National Register of Historic ...