Does anyone remember the old Rocky Springs Carousel that used to run
in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, but is now in storage there along with its
Gavioli band organ which played Wurlitzer 165 rolls?

I visited the park and carousel many years ago when it was operated by
Tom and Kimberly Wolf after Kim inherited it from her parents, who had
owned it.  The Rocky Springs Carousel has quite a long history, which
I won't go into now.  And there have been serious attempts to reopen
the carousel in Lancaster.  There is a Facebook group, Friends Of The
Rocky Springs Carousel, still active, but the carousel and band organ
continue to gather dust.

Today my interest in the carousel and band organ focuses on the old
and interesting collection of Wurlitzer 165 band organ rolls that
accompany the Gavioli.   I remember viewing and hearing those rolls
when Tom Wolf gave me access to the band organ as it played.

But I never got the chance to examine them closely or catalog their
contents, although after the organ went into storage I was making
arrangements with the group -- which my friend Michael Sweeney,
husband of Noreene Sweeney, who was associate editor of The Carousel
News & Trader 1992 to 2007 belonged to -- then in charge of the
carousel/organ storage complex.  But those arrangement were never
brought to fruition because of the difficulty of accessing the rolls
in a sound and secure environment, where fragile and valuable rolls
could be safely unrolled and examined.

I am now getting back into contact with Tom Wolf himself, after
decades have passed, although Tom says, "It's been a long time since
I had anything to do with the Gavioli and the rolls."  But we shall
see.

All this leads to my question here whether anyone else besides Tom and
myself has knowledge of the Rocky Springs carousel and its Gavioli
band organ.  The carousel did operate for a while at Dollywood, Pigeon
Forge, Tennessee, after it left Lancaster, but I don't know whether
the Gavioli played there or not.

Matthew Caulfield
Irondequoit, New York