Hi Bill and other MMD'ers! The tune played by the 38er Voigt
that you could not identify is the Ungarische Lustspiel Ouvertuere
[Hungarian Comedy Overture, ca. 1899], composed by Bela Keler,
a Hungarian.
This piece was/is quite popular on German fair organs in the
arrangement of Marcel van Boxtel, if I'm not mistaken. It was also
released on, among others, an LP record of the 52-key Gebr. Bruder
organ of Jan L. M. van Dinteren (now in the national museum at Utrecht).
Keler also wrote a Franzoesische and Spanische Lustspiel Ouvertuere,
as well as other nice pieces like the idyll, "Der Sohn der Heide".
Just an addendum: I don't think the recording is of the 69-keyless
Voigt, formerly at the Bressingham Steam Museum, now in the Netherlands.
The organ playing the Ungarische Lustspiel Ouvertuere in the MP3 sound
files on the MMD web site sounds differently to me and much larger.
According to the information of the current owner of the Voigt organ
formerly at the museum, the organ recorded by CJMO and playing in the
computer game "Rollercoaster Tycoon" is a 67-key Voigt, Modell 35.
By the way, which 38er Voigt is actually playing on the MP3 sound files?
Best wishes,
Bjorn Isebaert
Zottegem, Belgium
[ Visit http://mmd.foxtail.com/Sounds/griswold_38voigt.html
[ -- Robbie
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