Hi Robbie, Now let's see:  I got this North Tonawanda/Wurlitzer band
organ in 1980 but didn't take it out the first two years.  Starting in
1982 we started doing performances with it and since then until 1997 we
did 20 or more performances each year, and the "average" distance to a
location was about 200 miles so that means I drove 400 miles on average
per performance.

There were some years that we did more than 20 performances, as many
as 32 in one year, but just figuring the least number as 20, that's 16
years times 20 times 400.  What does that come to?  We wore out three
vehicles pulling the organ trailer.  Is that 128,000 miles?

My gosh!  Now I wonder how many miles that carnival show that I got it
from, and other possible previous owners, had put on it from 1912 until
1980 when I got it.  That's a long walk around the block.

The reason I didn't count more than 20 performances in any year is
because we also take the calliope out for performances, too, and that
would about make up the difference in mileage.

I can tell you one thing for sure: after driving 350 miles to the
Northern Peninsula of Michigan, do a performance, then drive another
350 miles back home, it certainly takes the stuffings out of me.

We've gone to many places in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Ontario, places
that we'd never have visited otherwise, so it's been fun.

Hal Davis