[ Hal Davis reported:

> For those of you who would like to hear a pipe organ being played by
> Wurlitzer series 165 band organ rolls you can download these files.

 [ John Page replied:

> Please enlighten me.  I'm only an ignorant Englishman, but if a
> Wurlitzer 165 isn't a pipe organ, just exactly what is it?

Hello John and everybody else, with the risk of starting a flame-war:

If you had followed up that thread from the beginning, then you would
already know that the special idea here is not a Wurlitzer 165 Band
Organ but actually a residential pipe organ, that commonly is played
with very ordinary manual keys (manuals).  He now went ahead and wired
a player-system to this organ, so that he can play the 165-style rolls
-- alternatively, I hope -- on it.

Sure enough, a Wurlitzer Band Organ also is a pipe organ, but as Robbie
put it in the topic: a *self-playing* pipe organ!

To hear the same music on the very different ranks that a manual
residential organ might have and with different wind pressure and
keeping in mind, that this organ was not designed to be a player-organ,
someone might be interested to hear that.

greetings by(e) InK - Ingmar Krause
Victoria, B.C., Canada

P.S.: I wished that the editors would somewhat react to a posting like
this and either reply to it privately, pointing out what the thread was
about and not include that into MMD or instead place a correction-note
from themselves into MMD, saying: "Sorry, in posting XYZ of MMDigest
123456, it was supposed to say: If you would like to hear a non-player
residential pipe organ being played by Wurlitzer 165 band organ
rolls...", but unfortunately Robbie didn't seem to have followed up on
it himself or noticed what John's dilemma exactly was, or -- typically
for our Editor -- he has taken the opportunity to turn a statement such
as this to start a new thread, which still doesn't have anything to do
with John's problem...

 [ I create the Subject line to agree with the discussion thread,
 [ previous or forthcoming.  The replies will answer John Page's
 [ question and will provide much more information in addition.
 [ -- Robbie