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Jack Breen
Добавлен 12 янв 2016
the world of antique mechanical music machines
AddamsFamilyTheme CanobieLakeParkCarousel
"The Addams Family Theme" played by the Wurlitzer 153 band organ at the Canobie Lake Park carousel
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MuppetTheme CanobieLakeParkCarousel
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"The Muppet Theme" played by the Wurlitzer 153 band organ at the Canobie Lake Park Carousel
InTheNavy CanobieLakeParkCarousel
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"In The Navy" played on the "Wurlitzer 153 band organ at the Canobie Lake Park carousel
MerryGoRoundBrokeDown CanobieLakeParkCarousel
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"The Merry Go Round Broke Down" played on the Wurlitzer 153 Band Organ at the Canobie Lake Park Carousel
LivinInTheSunlightLovinInTheMoonlight CanobieLakeParkCarousel
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"Livin' In The Sunlight Lovin' In The Moonlight" played on the Wurlitzer 153 Band Organ on the Canobie Lake Park carousel with a tour of the MIDI controller
"Somebody Else is Taking My Place" at Canobie Lake Park
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"Somebody Else is Taking My Place" on the recently refurbished and repainted Wurlitzer 153 band organ at the Canobie Lake Park carousel operating off its new MIDI controller. You can now hear hours of music without repeating a tune!
Canobie Lake Park Wurlitzer 153 band organ on the carousel
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Listen to the recently returned Wurlitzer 153 band organ on the Canobie Lake Park carousel running under MIDI control.
"Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" at Canobie Lake Park carousel
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The Wurlitzer 153 band organ is back on the Carousel at Canobie Lake Park in New Hampshire and sounds and looks fantastic! The façade has been repainted and the organ operates off a newly installed MIDI system which permits hours of play without repeating a tune. Enjoy part of the Parade of the Wooden Soldiers.
Music taken from Wurlitzer Melodies at the Lake.
This song is from roll #14291
This song is taken from Looney Tunes.
Other way around. Looney Tunes adapted an existing song to be its theme, and younger audiences learned it as that.
Canobie Lake State Park is still there!!! One of my greatest memories
This is nostalgic
"I’m through with takin’ falls! I’m bouncin’ off the walls! Without that gun, I’d have some fun, I’d kick you in the..." "Nose!"
"Nose?? That don't rhyme with walls!"
where do the solenoids come from ? fabulous job on the organ and carousel at canobie lake park Salem NH
Tha that's all folks!
The first thing that came out
The only thing you need is the water
SpongeBob SquarePants anyone?
This is awesome!
I'm going to make a few speculations Jack, so my number 1 bet is you probably work here cause notice how no one's around. I'm also speculating Canobie Lake Park's Band Organ was converted to midi in Halloween 1990. I wonder how they operated it back when they had to change rolls, there must've been a worker with a shelf of rolls behind the organ who just sat back there all day so it wouldn't ruin the magic. Hershey Part does the same thing.
At some parks and carnivals the band organ's rolls were changed just once a day if that. When one roll is playing, after the other roll has rewound there is time to change it before it has to start playing to keep the music continuous (hence the duplex roll system). The roll doesn't have to be changed immediately; it will repeat automatically. For Canobie Lake, I think the organ's MIDI system began operation in late 2017. Just one controller is needed for both duplex and single roll organs. "Rewinding" to repeat the playlist, which could have hundreds of tunes, is almost instantaneous. Or It takes just a few seconds to manually hit stop, pull out the memory card, insert another card, and hit start.
The entire Canobie Lake Park roll collection has been repaired, optically scanned and converted to the MIDI controller files that now play the organ. The paper rolls are nearly a century old and are getting fragile. All the pipes, bells, drums and cymbals of the organ play as they have for the past hundred years. Holes in paper have been replaced with solenoids uncovering channels.
Say it aint so...They replaced the paper organ rolls with a midi synthesizer?....Shameful.
The roll mechanism has be augmented with a MIDI controller not a MIDI synthesizer. The organ can still play the old fragile dried out rolls if someone wants to take the risk. All the pipes, bells, drums and cymbal play as they always have. A century ago, pinned barrels were replaced with paper rolls or cardboard books so organs could play more than the ten tunes built in at the factory. Adding a MIDI controller allows play for days without ever repeating a tune and protects the music stored on the paper rolls. It is impossible to tell whether the organ is playing a paper roll or a MIDI control file. Holes in the paper have just been replaced with holes being uncovered by a solenoid. I agree that a MIDI synthesizer would be a criminal act while a MIDI controller is the opposite.
I wonder what happened to the old music rolls that we had stored in the carousel ticket booth area. Many good memories having worked at Canobie Lake Park four seasons in the mid 1960s.
They were probably sold, thrown away, or are lurking around on the floor just behind the organ 😢
Belle of the Season March
For a smaller Dance Organ this one sounds really good
It's not even a dance organ lol, it's a "Band Organ", because they imitate military bands. The Wurlitzer 153 was made for carousels, roller rinks, and other things.
@@CBF1 Does it really matter pal? It's an organ either way.
@@dylanmayes9513 Yeah, lol. Hundreds were made, it is possible that some wound up at dance pavilions.
As a drunken reprobate, this is one of my favorite songs!
Haha, I see what'cha did there. Who Framed Roger Rabbit's my favorite!
That song never gets old especially with Looney tunes
Boo!
Can wait see Adam family with friend Bob in chunky
I heard in my mall
BOOOING
Sound creepy
No it does not. It sounds MAGNIFICENT.
@@CBF1 Exactly. ^^
Disgusting gacha rat
That's fair, i personally love it but i can understand how it could come off as creepy
The only way
Swirl vs saw the movie
Name of the tune?
Also can you please record "Dixie" there? I love this one btw
Awesome to see!! (Jack, you may remember me as the then-teenager who appeared at a few AMICA meetings a few years back.)
Spongebob!
No, this song dates back WAY WAY before Spongebob ever existed.
@@oneblackhorse most people know this song because of SpongeBob
@@MrPollitogatitoNo, many many more know it from Tiny Tim, the singer
Is it just me, or is the motor spinning backwards? The flywheel appears to be spinning CCW.
Motion picture and video frame rates play tricks with subject matter containing rotating objects; they may appear to spin backwards and/or at the wrong speed. The scientific term is "aliasing." The band organ cannot play rolls if the motor spins backwards while with MIDI (digital) music files the flywheel can be spun in either direciton.
why are there not any rolls?
it's played through MIDI
Why do the bells never stop playing? Is it set to play like that? There’s usually different spots it plays, but here they never stop playing.
Will Long one of the tubes to the general cancel control had split. The result was that the bells never shut off and the swell shades did not move. The tube was replaced and the organ now performs properly. Some of my videos were taken before the tube split.
I was there today, the bells are now fixed.
Just tripped over this. LOVE LOVE LOVE listening to this beautiful Wurlitzer 153 and its sister (one of several) at the wonderful Kennywood Park in Pittsburgh. THANK YOU to Canobie for keeping this treasure in operation!
I’m noticing a lot of band Organs have the bells play at all times.
Jack Breen, somebody is stealing and reposting your videos. Heads up Jack.
Where?
I've seen this organ in person on the carousel and may I say that it sounds as brilliant as ever. Also The merry go round broke down, as played by a merry go round organ
I heard that in Lake Compounce.
I would be pleased to get the card-notes to set it on my own organ :)
The owner and distributor of this arrangement is Andy Adams at Goldleaf Galleries. He can be reached at sales@wurlitzerrolls.com
It's not "In the Navy". The tune is "Wings of Gold".
How is the organ playing without rolls?
John Hasinger midi
it's playing via MIDI. Music is on a sd card and plugged into a MIDI reader.
Do you have any songs from roll #13246-47?
Next time you go do you think you could try and record "Swinging on a Star"
The Swells must be stuck on the organ. They are not moving at all
All the registers appear to be locked on for some reason
Good catch Andy. I continued to record even though sometime between recordings, the bleed on the general cancel got clogged so the swell shades are not operating and the bells are not shutting off. This has happened before on this organ and will be corrected this winter during shut-down since it requires a tear-down of the register controls. For the time being, the organ volume is constant and the bells are always on, which is better than the opposite possibility.
Yeah I just wanted you guys to know about it. So that the park knows about this to. Thank you for doing this Jack
@@jackbreen4227 I worked at Canobie Lake Park during the 1963-66 seasons. Overtime I had worked on rides from Kiddie Land up to & including the Yankee Cannonball roller coaster. The roller coaster at that time had two waist high hand operated braking levers to stop the coaster when it returning to its start point. I think operating the Yankee Cannonball coaster (not called that when they worked there) & the Carousel were the highlights of my time working at Canobie Lake Park.
One of my favorite songs
Nice! Looks like a very good and tasteful effort on the decoration. Love to hear these organs in tune with everything working correctly. I hope they play it a lot going forward.
That's the best that Canobie's organ has ever sounded!
Great sounding organ! Nice job making this video.
Thanks. Did you see and hear the other two videos I posted?
What tune is this? Sounds to me like a late Wurlitzer arrangements
Wurlitzer 153 Belle of the Season! From roll 13116
I'm loving your videos