Song list 00:00 - Punchinello 03:50 - Puttin' On The Ritz 05:56 - Take Good Care Of My Baby 08:14 - Under the Bridges Of Paris (Sous Les Ponts De Paris) 10:38 - St. Louis Blues March 14:00 - Aba Daba Honeymoon 16:21 - One Fine Day 18:40 - Dream Train 20:41 - Piffle Rag 23:52 - Valse Septembre
The top of that facade, (both 146 A &B), is one solid piece. Someone has cut it down. If the "other half" is back that's great, but it should never have been cut. Someone needs to be slapped silly!
If you want to restore it properly I can definitely lead you to the right people. I'd start with Pam Hessey at: hawkseyestudio.com. She did an awesome job restoring the paint on mine. In fact she has mine in the gallery on her web page. She has a colleague who can reproduce the wood carving. There are other names I can give you as well. Wurlitzer never made a facade like that, some chowder head took a saw to it. It was probably damaged and that was their solution rather than fixing it properly.
Didn't Wurlitzer, at some point in time, begin making the tops of their organ fronts removable as a separate piece? I believe one of their later catalogs even mentioned that the top scrolls were hinged to the organ, and could be folded down. I don't think this front was ever butchered, it was built the way it is, and the scroll just didn't happen to be installed on the organ at the time this video was made. A later video shows the organ playing at the park, with the top scroll back in place again. I fell in love with this 146 as a child back in the 1940s, have kept an eye on it ever since, and am highly pleased that it has now been properly restored.
You could be right. But if someone outside the Wurlitzer factory did this, they sure did a meticulously neat job. When it is all put together, the joint between the top and the rest of the front is barely visible.
For those folks who are gnashing their teeth over whether the front has been chopped, butchered, or whatever, I can tell you something else about this organ, If you could have a look at the back of the organ, you would immediately see that the lower rear panel, the one you remove to gain access to the valve blocks, pressure pump, and so forth, has been lost. It has been replaced by a piece of plywood. I don't know exactly when the rear panel vanished. I'm guessing that it happened during the late 1960s or the early 1970s. Even if the front has been cut into two pieces, at least both parts still exist today.........
And something else is not original- the drums. During an overhaul back in the mid-1970s both of the organ's original drums, with their automatic spring tensioning mechanisms, were done away with (WHY???) and replaced with "modern" drums. The new drums were blue, I believe, with lots of gleaming chrome on them. This organ has gone through many so-called "improvements" over the years.
Song list
00:00 - Punchinello
03:50 - Puttin' On The Ritz
05:56 - Take Good Care Of My Baby
08:14 - Under the Bridges Of Paris (Sous Les Ponts De Paris)
10:38 - St. Louis Blues March
14:00 - Aba Daba Honeymoon
16:21 - One Fine Day
18:40 - Dream Train
20:41 - Piffle Rag
23:52 - Valse Septembre
What's the name of the rag at 20:40
Clark's Trading Post has one of those.
anyone know the song at 14:00?
I remember this tune from a Laverne and Shirley episode..
Check this Laverne and Shirley episode out.
Abba Dabba, Dabba, Dabba..
th-cam.com/video/SpKWHs_0JGg/w-d-xo.html
Here is Ray Steven's version.
th-cam.com/video/E6rNsB6qWIU/w-d-xo.html
@@voiceover-impressionist thanks!
What the hell happened to the facade? Somebody butchered it!
Are you referring to the loss of the top of the crown? It was probably taken off for work. It's back on there now.
The top of that facade, (both 146 A &B), is one solid piece. Someone has cut it down. If the "other half" is back that's great, but it should never have been cut. Someone needs to be slapped silly!
If you want to restore it properly I can definitely lead you to the right people. I'd start with Pam Hessey at: hawkseyestudio.com. She did an awesome job restoring the paint on mine. In fact she has mine in the gallery on her web page. She has a colleague who can reproduce the wood carving. There are other names I can give you as well. Wurlitzer never made a facade like that, some chowder head took a saw to it. It was probably damaged and that was their solution rather than fixing it properly.
Excuse me?
Are you serious Ms. Oliphant?!! I believe you are the ASS here.
Didn't Wurlitzer, at some point in time, begin making the tops of their organ fronts removable as a separate piece? I believe one of their later catalogs even mentioned that the top scrolls were hinged to the organ, and could be folded down. I don't think this front was ever butchered, it was built the way it is, and the scroll just didn't happen to be installed on the organ at the time this video was made. A later video shows the organ playing at the park, with the top scroll back in place again. I fell in love with this 146 as a child back in the 1940s, have kept an eye on it ever since, and am highly pleased that it has now been properly restored.
You could be right. But if someone outside the Wurlitzer factory did this, they sure did a meticulously neat job. When it is all put together, the joint between the top and the rest of the front is barely visible.
For those folks who are gnashing their teeth over whether the front has been chopped, butchered, or whatever, I can tell you something else about this organ, If you could have a look at the back of the organ, you would immediately see that the lower rear panel, the one you remove to gain access to the valve blocks, pressure pump, and so forth, has been lost. It has been replaced by a piece of plywood. I don't know exactly when the rear panel vanished. I'm guessing that it happened during the late 1960s or the early 1970s. Even if the front has been cut into two pieces, at least both parts still exist today.........
And something else is not original- the drums. During an overhaul back in the mid-1970s both of the organ's original drums, with their automatic spring tensioning mechanisms, were done away with (WHY???) and replaced with "modern" drums. The new drums were blue, I believe, with lots of gleaming chrome on them. This organ has gone through many so-called "improvements" over the years.
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