Wurlitzer 153 Band Organ: Music From the 2018 Wurlitzer 150 Recutting Project

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Wurlitzer 153 Band Organ: Music From the 2018 Wurlitzer 150 Recutting Project

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5 жыл бұрын

This Wurlitzer 153, built in 1916 is one of the oldest existing 153s. After years of not playing, the organ shines again after a rebuild which completed just a few months ago. It is shown here playing music from the 2018 Wurlitzer 150 recutting project which brought 10 never-before-recut rolls back from being lost in time. Some of this music likely hasn't been heard in over 50 years!
The set of rolls playing in this video were used to make sure everything was correct in cutting the new rolls. As you can probably tell, the result is virtually perfect!
For more information about this project, see
www.mechanicalmusic.org
Titles:
1. April Showers (13084 tune 3)
2. I'll Be With You When The Clouds Roll By (13068 tune 2)
3. I'll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time (13068 tune 3)
4. Love's Last Day (13096 tune 6)
5. Three O' Clock In The Morning (13096 tune 7)
End: The Sheik Of Araby (13084 tune 1)

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@bcu567obzx 7 ай бұрын

The paintings on the drums are so different, never seen this before, very artistic

@robertmackinnon9666 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for the beautiful restoration of a great machine and it’s wonderful music.

@sousafan100 4 жыл бұрын

nice organ and selections - hey mikey i'm glad you're back on utube...ha

@neilmcvilly3702 3 жыл бұрын

Gosh this is a gorgeous instrument in both appearance and sound. Engineering at its finest. Love the way the organ ducts open up when more volume is needed from the pipes in the tune and it's a joy to see the little cymbal beating and the xylophones being played. Still amazes me these marvels were being produced as early as the late 1830's. I love watching the steam powered fairground carousels with their beautiful painted animals, lights, carriages and band organs.

@williamwehling2019 Жыл бұрын

. I wqw

@CBF1 Жыл бұрын

Engineering that we'll never see again unless if we learn to stop looking to produce things cheaply and energy-efficiently...

@grampy2014 3 жыл бұрын

Memories of Gooding Amusements at the Fairfield Co. fair, Lancaster, Ohio

@CBF1 Жыл бұрын

Gooding had several 153's. According to Rory from Carrousels and their Wurlitzer's(won't say his surname) one of them is in the Randyland Retro Arcade in Wildwood NJ. Others are scattered across the USA and I don't know where.

@SundanceWolf 4 жыл бұрын

This brings happy tears to my eyes! Thank you for posting!

@davidgiumenti516 3 жыл бұрын

It sure does we have a 153 in New phila park.it has kept up I love the sound of the thing love it and love you for show it there is one like that in an old high.class music store in Cleveland that has a gem like that

@davidgiumenti516 3 жыл бұрын

Bill Knapp piano rest his sole

@robertmackinnon9666 5 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful band organ..great job of restoring it. Wow! Thank you.

@bartonpercival2147 3 жыл бұрын

Just a big thank you for not only posting these wonderful videos on KZfaq of these incredible band organs, but for the restoration and maintaining of these wonderful band organs. This generation of today will never know the happiness & joy these band organs gave the many people that heard them on their favorite carousel in so many different amusement parks that populated the USA in the 1920’s all the way up to today. This wonderful music reminds me of the merry-go-Round I grew up with in San Francisco in the 1950’s. Playland at the Beach had a 1905 Charles I. D. Looff Carousel that had a Wurlitzer 165 and two Wurlitzer 153’s along with an Artizian style D band organ that filled my ears with beautiful music when I was a child. This music brings back fond memories. Thank you again!!!!!!!

@KatinIN 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing with us!!🌷👍

@RWBHere 4 жыл бұрын

It likely sounded pretty good after it tuning was completed. The organ is a fine restoration project, and thanks are due to those involved with rescuing the rolls from possible oblivion. Terry Smythe has some MIDI files of scans of various 150-series tunes, plus a few for 105-series organs. You have to dig around on the site to find various gems. A few of the arrangements are very good indeed, but many need scanning errors correcting.

@gary1bovee217 2 жыл бұрын

@spikeworks 2 жыл бұрын

I love seeing these. Luckily I live close enough to Hershey park that I can visit it and hear one of these organs on the merry go round!

@jeromewhelan6723 4 жыл бұрын

Wow, what a satisfying performance! I love the band organ's performance of "April Showers", which is a memory of my experience as a performance by Eddie Fisher (which you can find on KZfaq).

@sharkyfish3492 3 жыл бұрын

OMG... Its awesome

@ChrisPlaola 5 жыл бұрын

Sounds great!

@BrantDisneyfan 5 жыл бұрын

I like all of your songs on SoundCloud

@zakariafadel3688 Жыл бұрын

Great video mate!👍🏼 Would love to build a Wurlitzer 165 or a Wurlitzer 153 replica if I can. These organs are just amazing

@khmam 6 ай бұрын

You know, if Ken Smith was still around, he probably could have made a replica of a 153, or 165, since he built an 89 keyless Gavioli, and Ruth Model 38.

@sharonh7947 3 жыл бұрын

There is a Carousal in Binghamton NY. Recreation Park. Built around 1925. The Wurlitzer is playing, modern music, but the drums are not moving. They try, but don't strike. I would donate money to getting this machine working. Can you point me in the direction of anyone that can repair it?

@BrantDisneyfan 5 жыл бұрын

Hey Mikey I have meet two Wurlitzer 153 ones at the Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum because it’s going to canalside and I have meet the Hershey Wurlitzer 153 for the first time I have meet the Hershey’s Wurlitzer 153

@khmam 2 жыл бұрын

Have you bought any CDs of William E. Black's 153?

@BrantDisneyfan 2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately I don’t have them

@michaelcomperini6478 5 жыл бұрын

The tune april showers

@MechanicalMusics 5 жыл бұрын

The complete tune list is in the description.

@TomIannucci22 5 жыл бұрын

Hey I have a question. Are you familiar with how to create a new song arrangement into a midi file from scratch? Like a song that wasn't previously on a paper roll.

@MechanicalMusics 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, I am an arranger for a number of automatic musical instruments. For the 150 scale, (which the 153 plays) I have released 5 new rolls for.

@TomIannucci22 5 жыл бұрын

@@MechanicalMusics That's awesome! Is there any way you could arrange a song for the 153 that I wrote? It's a pretty simple tune. I would love to hear it played on a 153 so much. If there's any way that could be done that would be awesome.

@robcat2075 4 жыл бұрын

Interesting that the control for the bass drum and snare are placed to get hit before the others.

@whoisthisguy724 3 жыл бұрын

That's to compensate for the pneumatic's travel time. If the bass and snare drum holes were in line with the holes for the playing notes in the tracker bar, the drums would be on a slight delay

@khmam 3 жыл бұрын

They had to time the drums accuratley in order to play correctly.

@robcat2075 3 жыл бұрын

@@whoisthisguy724 I suppose they presume that no one will change the speed the paper is running and undo that precision offset.

@wurlitzer1538 2 жыл бұрын

@@robcat2075 the speed of the paper doesn’t affect it. The rolls frames only allow the tempo to be cranked up a certain speed that allows for the drums to be able to keep up

@Trucker4699 5 жыл бұрын

Does Kennywood have any of these rolls?

@boalsburgfire1809 2 жыл бұрын

Mikey, I was wondering if my fire company could get permission to use this recording to promote a fire company carnival event if we provide you with the proper credits?

@khmam 2 жыл бұрын

I happen to know the person who rebuilt this 153!

@wurly164 Жыл бұрын

Do you ?

@khmam Жыл бұрын

@@wurly164 Techincally, that person is Hilferty who restored this 153 in 2018.

@wurly164 Жыл бұрын

@@khmam I know. Just having fun with you. Maybe this summer we can show you, thr General

@khmam Жыл бұрын

@@wurly164 Like, when and where is The General?

@wurly164 Жыл бұрын

@@khmam maybe around April. It's kept in a large metal barn on a farm, but we can bring it down to the museum

@DavidBurgessMechanicalMusic 5 жыл бұрын

Wasn't this the 153 that was sold on Ebay back in 2017?

@tictok9972 5 жыл бұрын

David Burgess That’s what I was thinking. Same drums and mini lights. Joe did a fantastic job. This organ sounds wonderful!!

@DavidBurgessMechanicalMusic 5 жыл бұрын

Well, ever since Joe Hillferdy (I think that's how his last name is spelled) now owns it, I hope he takes good care of it!

@MechanicalMusics 5 жыл бұрын

This is the same organ. It isn’t owned by Joe Hilferty but was worked on by him. It is owned by a man in eastern Ohio.

@CBF1 4 жыл бұрын

Well that's a rare occurance... Wurlitzer organs never usually appear on Ebay, but I do plan to get a 153.

@khmam 3 жыл бұрын

@@DavidBurgessMechanicalMusic Joe owns a 153 himself.

@MrHeesbeen 2 жыл бұрын

The one weakness in all Wurlitzer organs was the musical arrangements - they were rubbish ! The dutch and Belgians know how to make an organ sing rather than just plod along dirge like, as the American Wurlitzer arrangements do. Wurlitzer organs are nowhere as sweet sounding as Stinson organs. Sure, Stinson organs can shout, but at least they have better sounding pipework, greater musical balance and easier for a musician to listen to.

@CBF1 Жыл бұрын

Upon further hearing I have heard a little bit of good counter-melody use from Wurlitzer Factory arrangements, but I do agree that some of their arrangements weren't as well done as how some other people have arranged for the rolls... Stinsons play Wurlitzer rolls FYI.