During the twenty-four plus years that we operated the Broadway Flying
Horses at Seaport Village in San Diego, California, we adopted the
policy of playing the organ only while the carousel was in motion.

There were two reasons for this.  One was that the carousel was very
close to over a dozen retail and fast food outlets.  We tried operating
in the conventional way the first month or so after the organ came back
from the shop.  The tenants all complained to the management company,
and we negotiated this arrangement with them.

There was also the decision, late in the construction of the already
too-small building, to glass in the openings instead of installing
roll-up doors; this didn't help matters either.  The building then had
the acoustics of a 55 gallon oil drum, and three minutes play time with
a minimum of six to eight minutes off made the loading and unloading of
the machine much more manageable (people could actually hear what you
were saying).

There were a lot of mistakes that were made with that installation, as
is typical when the architect did not do any research to what made the
ideal carousel building, not just one that looked nice.

Bruce R. Pier