Well, this is my first post to this list since I got approved. Ken's Ruth and Gavioli are still at opposite ends of the Smith music room, just like they always have been. His wife has sold the organ trailer, so the organs won't be going out to rallies, but they're in good voice and she and Ken's daughter Susan exercise the organs for a while each week. I have done a number of arrangements for both organs and there are a few still in the pipeline, so to speak. I will have to make the books myself if they are to be completed, however, since Marian Smith also sold Ken's perforating equipment. Dave Vincent

Do you have a punch, Dave? If you don't I think I know where there is a Haughwout punch set up for keyless music for sale.

Yes, I do, although it's partially disassembled at the current time. It has two punches and dies on the head, one rectangular for keyed books and the other round for keyless ones. DMV

The Roehl's 146 again, "Sphinx", next is "Hawaiian Moonlight"

The Ontario Beach (Rochester, NY) Stinson 165 playing "I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover". This organ is interesting in that it doesn't have all the extras a W165 has. It has minimal registers and none of the extra percussion (except timpani), making it sound much like a scaled up Wurlitzer 153. Now playing is "Blue Skies", followed by "Rosey Cheeks" and "Oh, Lizzie (A Lover's Lament)"

Video of Dave Clark's Wurlitzer 153 (the one in my avatar) playing "Here They Come", a "down main street" type march (Which, incidentally, is also on this same roll). The duplex roll frame has now shifted to a FT/W roll, so now we have "What Do We Do on a Dew, Dew, Dewey Day", with a few shots of the other roll rewinding.

"Hoch Heidecksburg" (book by Voigt) played by a Ruth 36 in an original wood display box mounted on a truck. I saw it two years ago at a rally in western New York State. Unfortunately, a brass North Tonawanda a short distance away was blaring right at the camera. The setting has changet to LeRoy Schumacher's W146 playing "Foreward"

Wurlitzer 153 playing Auld Lang Syne (it's midnight here)

Sussex by the Sea,played on the 89 Key Sleigh Bell Marenghi,recorded for me by Kevin Mayers. yes it may be Jan just but I am looking forward to 'The Bushes' once again. roger

"Jolly Fellows" on the Griffith Park W165, from http://wurlitzer-rolls.com

LeRoy Schumacher's W146 playing "Foreward"

Not a fairground organ - but a pipe organ nonetheless (and it is the instrument that got me interested in organbuilding in the first place): Barry Smith playing the 4 manual Hill organ in St George's Cathedral, Cape Town (a recital recorded in 1968, but have also just listened to his farewell recital recorded at the end of 2006, after 42 years as organist and choirmaster at the Cathedral). For more information about the instrument: http://www.stgeorgescathedral.com/ft-hillorgan.html http://www.stgeorgescathedral.com/music.html Quoted from this article: "A particularly interesting feature are five large display pipes in the main south transept case which have elaborately embossed designs beaten into thin sheets of lead wrapped around the plain zinc of the pipes." Apparently this is quite a rare feature. Eagle eyed readers of the forum will realise that my 'avatar' is a photo of this organ. Good stuff to listen to whilst drawing. :wink: Anna

Mike Grant's Wurlitzer 105 playing an unidentified march

W153 playing a nice Bob Stuhmer arrangement of Clarinet Polka. The duplex roll frame has shifted to "Give My Regards to Broadway" arr. by Tom Meijer

I'm listening to Nick Willams 38 Key street organ "De Toren" & I've also been listening to: The Reeder brothers 89 key Gavioli,Mike Garner's 52 key Verbeeck,Page & Howard street organ "The Musican" & The Saunders 101 key Mortier ex Burville. Ben :)