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

@@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.

@@CBF1 Very lucky that you have a pic

@@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.

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.

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

@@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.

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

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

I couldn't agree more!

@@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 KZfaq 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.

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

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

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