The 98 key Chiappa "Wonderland" fairground organ
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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2023
- Taken from volume 1 of the "Listen to Wonderland" cassette.
1 - Brown Eyes, Why are you Blue?
2 - The Bullfighters March
3 - Some Night, Some Waltz, Some Girl
4 - Polly
5 - It Happened in Monterey
6 - The Galloping Major
7 - Three O'Clock in the Morning
8 - Lady of Madrid
9 - The Fleet's in Port Again
10 - Fifty Years of Waltzes Part 1
11 - Baiser D'Amour
12 - On Mother Kelly's Doorstep
13 - Lynwood March
14 - Amapola
15 - Thoroughly Modern Millie
16 - My Brave Picador
17 - Masaniello Overture
Some personal favourites on this that i always love playing, wish it sounded like this now!
I always refer to the 1964 to the early 2000s as its glory years.
Oh no, it doesn't sound like this any more? What happened to it?
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Well,a wooden block and a glockenspiel were added by mr hunt after some well known historian of fairground organs suggested it to him.Between 2010 and when Alan Marchington bought maintenance of it got less and less and it lost its once grandeur,thankfully Alan has improved its playing and its now begining to sound much better.
@@RaggyAl1971 Thanks for the information. Glad to hear there haven't been any radical alterations other than that. I really used to enjoy listening to Wonderland in it's original status when it appeared at Dorset. Not convinced that the additions improved it though.
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No,quite agree although its been said that chiappa's never got round to fitting them when they were building the organ.
If you haven't already done so check out my 1955 Wonderland recording on my channel,the organ sounds quite different to what it became after 1963.
Thanks for sharing this wonderful fairground organ,, love from bloxwich ❤️😊
My pleasure Dennis.
I'd forgotten how well it sounded on this recording. Some nice old books.
It sounded rather grand back then and in recent years its started to sound a lot better than it has in quite a few years,2010 to the when the present owner bought it were the worst it played in years,lack of maintenance was really begining to show.
Indeed, it sounded very good here! Luckily it seems to be being brought up to scratch in recent years.
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It sounded quite different back in 1955 when Eroika Recording Services recorded it.I have a number of tracks of it from the LP on my computer.
@@RaggyAl1971 Indeed it did - I daresay I prefer how it used to sound back then, more powerful and balanced.
A couple of title corrections -
3. Some Night, Some Waltz, Some Girl.
5. It Happened in Monterey.
10. Fifty Years Of Waltzes Part 1.
Thanks Peter, I was just going by what was on the cassette sleeve!
I've got this cassette,bought it from the long gone FOPS stand at the also long gone Wollaton Park steam rally,Nottingham.
Do you happen to know how many different volumes were produced?
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I'm pretty sure there was a Vol 2.The person to ask is James Dundon on Mechanical Music Radio,he has vol1 and loads of other wonderland tracks.
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@@Nigel_Gardiner Thanks Nigel.