Re: Calliope
By Douglas K. Rhodes
I have to take issue with Robbie Rhodes on one detail of his recollections of those thrilling days of yesteryear. He says, in reference to the Tangley calliope:
"...on a quiet afternoon in the suburbs it could easily be heard over a quarter-mile away!"
I am sure that that particular calliope could be heard at least two miles away, maybe more. (There are some things from childhood that one never forgets.) That's part of what must have made it so grand when the circus came to town! The old guy who owned that machine lived in a run-down residential part of Long Beach, California. He kept it, along with a lot of other junk, in a shed behind the house. I don't think he could play it all that well himself, and his neighbors were quite unsympathetic to the racket it made. When it got moved to our home, and _Rob_ was at the keyboard, we became very popular (or at least well-known) with our neighbors.
Cheers
Doug Rhodes
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