[ Ref. 040813 MMDigest, "Unknown Fair Organs & Tunes on Old Recordings",
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Hello, I can give you some titles and organs playing on the list at
  http://www.mmdigest.com/Gallery/Sounds/Barrett/index.html

Tr. 1 is the Ruth 38 owned by Erich Grund and definitely not
a Gebr. Bruder.

Tr. 2 is "Fliegermarsch", Wellershaus 70 Tonstufen.

Tr. 3 "Bummel Petrus", Ruth 37 Erwin Ebert, Germany, and definitely
not a Richter.

Tr. 4 is probably a Gebr. Bruder 107 52-note keyless (I am not sure,
the tune samples are very short.)

Tr. 5 "Im Zigeunerlage", 38er Voigt, former fa. [family] Pötsch,
Munchen, Germany, now in the UK.

Tr. 6 "Anchors Aweigh" played by Ruth 36 owned by Hinzen, Roermond,
Netherlands -- difficult to recognize but clear to me.

Tr. 7 is the 112-note keyless Carl Frei owned by the Thursford
Collection, UK.

Tr. 2 "Grüss an Kiel Marsch", played by a Wellershaus 70-note keyless.

Tr. 9 "Annenpolka" played by a Wellershaus 70-note keyless, same as
track 2.  Note that the organ 'piano' and 'forte' are reversed plays.
Probably the function Piano and Forte is connected to the trackerbar
in the wrong order.

Tr. 10 is again the Ruth 38 owned by Erich Grund.  The song is ??
I did not know but I can find it out, I have the CD of the organ.
The number is on the list.

Tr. 11 is the 81er Wellershaus from the Thursford Collection, UK.
Note: some publishers say the organ has 84-note keyless.  That is
not correct.  It surely is the 81er.  We have an equal model 54 in
Holland and it too has 81 (Tonstufen) note keyless.

Tr. 12 is again the Ruth 36 Hinzen, Roermond, the Netherlands.

Tr. 13 is unknown to me.

Tr. 14 (and Tr. 8) seems to me a Gebr. Bruder organ or a Wilhelm
Bruder Söhne.

Tr. 15 is (spooky!) "Banditenstreiche Overture", composed by Franz
von Suppe.

Tr. 16 is "Fredericus Rex Marsch" played by Ruth 38, Curt Baum,
Hamburg.  (He died in the early 1970s.)

Tr. 17 seems to me a Richter also, probably one of the two Richter
organs of Hinzen, Roermond.  Well, he had them...  Sadly, the two
organs were been destroyed by fire in the mid 1980s.

Tr. 18 sounds to me as a Gebr. Bruder 107 for sure but unknown to me
who is the owner.

Tr. 19 is unknown to me.

Tr. 20 sounds to me like the 125-note keyless Carl Frei owned by
fa.  Barth, Germany.

Tr. 21 is not a Ruth 38 (almost) but is the Ruth 39 owned by Museum
Speelklok tot Pierement in the Netherlands.  Ruth built only two
copies, the other copy stands in Switzerland.  It is a rare model,
the basis was a 38er and additionally a second case of extra features.
In total it was a fully chromatic instrument in bass, accompaniment,
countermelody and melody.

In the early 1920s Ruth tried to overcome the competition from the
organ builders in Belgium and France with this very big scale organ.
(However, the instrument has still 96-note keyless but some functions
are multiplexed.)  It is my favorite instrument, too.  I visit the
museum in Utrecht sometimes to listen on Mondays.  You have to make an
appointment to do so since normally the museum is closed on Monday.

Tr. 22 unknown.

Tr. 23 Seems to me the 62er "Carl Frei" owned by Fa. Barth.  The organ
is originally a Alfred Bruder rebuilt by Carl Frei.  The song is
unknown to me.

Tr. 24 "Cowboy Ballade", 112-note keyless Carl Frei in private
collection in Seeuwen, Switzerland.

Tr. 25 is a factory notage [book music] from Ruth -- "hit" melodies
from the 1920s and '30s of the past century.  The organ is probably
a Ruth 38.  I know the songs from the Ruth 38 owned by Bram Vader,
Kolhorn, Netherlands.  I have recorded them too with permission.

Tr. 26 is the same organ as on track 21.  The song is "Soldatenleben
Marsch".  This march is also available on the Ruth scale 36, for
example, the Ruth organ on track 1 and 6 owned by Hinzen also has
this song.

Tr. 27 Ruth scale 36, W M Verdonk, Nieuwegein, Netherlands.

Tr. 28 Wellershaus 81-note keyless, Thursford Collection.

Tr. 29 Probably a rebuilt organ.  It is not possible to determine
which factory built it.  Sadly, the music sample lacks high tones
so recognition is a hard job.

Tr. 30 Unknown.

Tr. 31 Wellershaus 81-Tonstufen (keyless), Thursford Collection.

I hope that the data is sufficient.

Best regards,
Elwin Naastepad
The Netherlands
elwinchipie@hotmail.com.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply]