Customer Reviews
Great Music and Great Sound April 20, 2008
Anthony R. Tempesta (Columbus, GA United States)
One of the best band organ CDs I've found -- great selection of songs and the sound quality is just right. Close your eyes and you can picture yourself riding on your favorite carousel of your childhood!
Saluting the Wurlitzer 165 December 30, 2004
Danielle Bennignus
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's a toughie reviewing this album - I don't know quite how to rate it for the everyday listener, seeing as how band organ music is definitely an acquired taste. However, that said, if you happen to be a band organ nut, you're in for a treat with this CD. It's about as good as it gets.
Kudos to Klavier records for making a recording of this wonderful Wurlitzer 165 band organ - it sounds like a dream, and has transferred relatively well to CD format. My only complaint is that the glockenspiel sounds rather abrasive, and gets really grating when recorded onto a cassette tape. Otherwise, the album is pristine.
The tunes featured are all classic band organ offerings, and the rolls used are in splendid shape. The organ's mechanism performs beautifully - whatever "prominent Midwestern collection", as the liner notes read, it comes from is taking very good care of it.
Basically, this, alongside its sister album "Catch Another Brass Ring", stands as an ideal representation of what a Wurlitzer 165 should sound like. Band organ lovers will adore it. The average Joe? Hard to say...but it's certainly worth a try.
A must-have for anyone who loves band organs! May 17, 2003
M. L. Smith (Florida)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is the real thing,not some [poor],boring pipe organ imitation.You'll feel like you're really at the fair again when you listen to this CD!
For certain ambient moods.... October 13, 2002
Striver (Bronx, NY)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Play this CD on a system in another room, at low volume, for that ineffable feeling that there's a tumble-down old-fashioned trolley park just over the next hill.
The happiest music on earth! September 17, 2002
Whodathotit (Sunnyvale, CA USA)
This is the perfect antidote for the blues! It is absolutely impossible to feel down once you begin listening to this CD! I use it to give me a lift whenever I need it. I DARE you to not giggle with glee upon pressing the "play" button! If you have fond remembrances of carousel music as a child, you will get goosebumps and feel warm and fuzzy all at once when you listen to this! Why take anti-depressant drugs when you can cure the blahs quickly and naturally with this CD? An exceptionally clear recording, I bumped it down to four stars ONLY because I liked the musical selection slightly better on their follow-up album, "Catch Another Brass Ring."
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