Some carousels are run solely by volunteers, and the money to get an organ playing again might just not be there. Today, the only legitimate reason a for carousel organ to sit silent is money, and even that reason is not always legitimate. There are highly qualified companies and individuals who can get an organ playing like new again. Many carousel organs were on their last legs because no one was around who could repair them, and replacement parts were not available.
The difference between then and now, though, is that when recorded music first started to take the place of real band organs, there was actually a need for it. marketed a similar setup using a reel-to-reel tape player. (Later, Baptist Sound and Manufacturing Co. They sold their own records for it, made from a band organ of unknown origin playing Wurlitzer 165 rolls. In the late 1940s, the Allan Herschell Company, then the world’s largest builder of carousels, marketed the “Merri-Org,” which they touted as the “successor to the band organ.” This was a 78-rpm record player with an amplifier and speakers, housed in an Art Deco-styled cabinet. In the blog post you can read more about the tune and composer and also a watch a video of our talented organist Jonathan Kingston playing the tune.Hearing recorded music at a carousel is nothing new. You need to create this folder using that facility on your computer.įor some of the tunes there is also a blog post available which you can find by clicking on the title in the Music column. When saving these files to a USB pen for use in a Viscount organ you must save them into a dedicated folder named v_songs. Download or play the MIDI file by clicking on the icon in the Save column. Here you will find a library of MIDI files from our own Organ Musical Tutorial Series which you can find on our blog.
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