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Adirondack Carousel - Preparing for the Grand Opening

This installment of "Build A Carousel" encompasses the period beginning immediately after the installation of the Adirondack Carousel's mechanicals in the later part of April 2012 until immediately before The Grand Opening of the Adirondack Carousel on Saturday May 26, 2012. The Adirondack Carousel is located in the William Morris Park at the intersection of Bloomingdale Avenue (New York State Route 3) and Depot Street in downtown Saranac Lake, N.Y. From the original idea to The Grand Opening on May 26, 2012 more than a decade transpired. The Adirondack Carousel is owned by a not-for-profit (IRS code 501-c-3) corporation whose goals are multiple but include education, entertainment, and the economic promotion of Saranac Lake, N.Y. in particular, and the Adirondack Region in general. Paula Hameline has recently been hired as the Executive Director, and to my knowledge is the only paid employee of the carousel at this time. Volunteers provide the rest of the labor force for the Adirondack Carousel. This is a truly unique, reasonably priced, and family orientated amusement in downtown Saranac Lake, N.Y. This video is the first in my series of presentations on You Tube about The Adirondack Carousel to have only one type of Band Organ playing all seven songs heard during the video. The type of Band Organ is known as a Wurlitzer 165 and there are only eleven of these remaining in the entire world, unfortunately the twelfth was lost in a tragic fire which destroyed a PTC carousel and a Wurlitzer 165 Band Organ in the mid-ninetees at Seabreeze Amusement Park in Rochester, NY. The purposes of this series of video presentations is two fold: (1) to document for current and future generations the building of the Adirondack Carousel, and (2) to introduce to the younger generation, and re-introduce to an older generation, the truly wonderful and unique sound of band organ music. At the current time only recorded band organ music is played on the Adirondack Carousel, but a movement is just beginning to be organized to purchase a real live band organ for the carousel, hopefully this movement will be successful. This would help to distinguish the Adirondack Carousel from many newer carousels which rely solely on recorded music. The Wurlitzer 165 that is properly tuned and maintained is a wonder to behold. Wurlitzer band organ catalogues of the early twentieth century list its price as $3500 (a basic band organ at that time could be purchased from Wurlitzer for approximately $700. Of the remaining 11 Wurlitzer 165s at most five are available for the public to hear, including one located at Glen Echo Park outside of Washington, D.C (which is owned by the National Park Service of the United States Government, and plays on its own antique Denzel Carousel), one or two in the American Treasure Tours Collection which is located just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and one or two located in California. The remainder are in private collections, and a band organ broker recently told me that there is one in good shape for sale with an asking price of approximately $265,000, talk about inflation! If the Wurlitzer 165 were an automobile it would be a Mercedes, Lexus, or Ranger Rover. The goal for securing a band organ for the Adirondack Carousel is much, much more modest, with the desire to hopefully secure a nicely restored Wurlitzer 146 or 153 Band Organ. Musical presentations by some of these instruments can be found on You Tube by merely entering the type of band organ, i.e., Wurlitzer 165, into the search box and pressing enter. Please read the credits at the end of this video for the names of the songs that the 165s played. Please explore the Adirondack Carousel website and its Facebook Page to obtain more information about this uniquely entertaining and educational experience, and ways in which you could help it accomplish its multiple goals, with a donation of your time, talent, and financial resources. One special note of thanks to a truly remarkable and outstanding individual in the world of band organs. Mr. Matthew Caulfield greatly helped with information about band organs in general, and Wurlitzer 165s in particular. So set back, relax, and enjoy this presentation while listening to the glorious sounds of the best in band organ music, not electronically produced, but produced with the use of vacuum and bellows technology by our grandfathers and great-grandfathers.