[ Ref. Dale F. Rowe in 221019 MMDigest ]

Dale Rowe notes that two LP records of 87-hole B.A.B. band organ
music were issued. He states that one of those was recorded from the
106-keyless Gebr. Bruder organ now at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park,
Queens, New York, and the other was recorded from a "sister" organ.
However both albums were actually recorded from the now-Flushing
Meadows organ.

Mirrosonic's "Catch the Brass Ring" (SP 6001) was recorded when the
Stubbman carousel was still at Coney Island (it was combined with
the Feltman carousel for the 1964-65 New York World's Fair, the site
of which is now Flushing Meadows-Corona Park). The side-by-side roll
frames shown on the back of the album were actually those on the
Stubbman carousel's other organ, a Gebr. Bruder 65-keyless Elite
Orchestra Apollo playing "66-key" (67-hole) B.A.B. rolls. The bigger
organ's stacked roll frames were mounted inside the large case rather
than on the side.

The other album, Quote Records' "Carousel Park" (Q-1/Q-1S), was
recorded at the World's Fair site.

Dale also mentioned that the Flushing Meadows organ played for
a convention of the National Carousel Association. That would have
been the 1990 gathering. One roll frame (the lower one) was indeed
converted from the 87-hole B.A.B. scale to the Wurlitzer Style 165
scale. The other was not converted.

(Source, Fred Dahlinger's article in COAA Carousel Organ #59,
April 2014)

Dan Robinson
Rochester, New York