[ Ref. several MMDigest articles indexed at
 [ http://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/KWIC/K/knoebels.html

Hi, I am an employee of Knoebels and can give some more info on the
organs at the park.  The park currently owns about ten instruments,
which are either being restored or are awaiting a home somewhere in
the park complex.

A correction on the 107 Bruder.  After a damaging flood in 1996/97
the organ was removed for repairs and restoration and the unit was
also converted to MIDI control due to difficulty in repairing the
book reader.

The organ described as a Wurlitzer 146B was originally built in the
1800s by the Gebr. Bruder Firm of Waldkirch, Germany, and played pinned
cylinders.  Later it was converted to play Wurlitzer Style 150 music.

This was the first organ to come to the park; it accompanied the
first carousel at the park in the 1920s and it returned to the park in
the 1970s.  After a major restoration in 1983 and the fabrication of
many custom parts, the organ played again in 1986 on the kiddieland
Stein and Goldstein carousel.

The park also owns a Wurlitzer Caliola which was delivered to
Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1928 and then sold to Croop's Glen Park,
then purchased by Knoebels.  It was sold a few more times then finally
bought by the park again in 1973/74.  Major restoration was needed due
to neglect by its previous owners and being submerged in flood waters
during hurricane Agnes.  Complete restoration was finished in 1987.

The Knoebel collection also includes the following: A Wurlitzer 105
purchased in 1992, a Tangley Calliaphone purchased in 1988, an Artizan
C-1 purchased in 1992, and a Limonaire purchased in 1996.  If anyone
has any questions I'll do my best to answer them.

Joshua Baslick
Pennsylvania