Seabreeze carousel - Verbeeck Band organ 1

Seabreeze park rochester has a verbeeck 165 that is a replica of a real wurlITzer 165 that burned in a fire becuase employees where tearing down a roof.

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[Wurlitzer157]

I still don't quite understand why Seabreeze Park went to Verbeek and not a private collector for an actual 165, at least I would have contacted an American company such as Stinson because they are much more familiar with Wurlitzer band organs than Verbeek is...

[anglerfly]

@Wurlitzer157 Verbeek Could have read this comment!

[anglerfly]

@Wurlitzer157 wouldnt stinson put on a 3000M facade? LOL

[darvozz]

Hey, I know that place! :) The tune is "How Do You Do" from roll 6628.

[anglerfly]

@darvozz I will go there on thursday

[pauldquam1]

I just caught this strolling thru YouTube.. One cannot compare Don Stinson to

Johnny Verbeeck! The Verbeeck organs are world class and sound like real

fairground organs. Srtinson has a sound like a mixture of band organs, but

cannot be compared with the big European organ builders, or especially to

the late Ken Smith who built a fine Ruth and a Gavioli. He was the best! Paul

[koasterkav]

@Wurlitzer157 According to Matthew Caufield who is Mr. Seabreeze carousel, he told me Don Stisnon would not make an exact Wurlitzer 165 copy, and wanted to do it his way, so Verbeeck was chosen as they followed what Seabreeze wanted. My beef is that they only stuided the Wurlitzer 165 in a private collection in the midwest. It's the one that was on Nunley's Carousel a long time ago. They could have had Durward Center make a copy of the 165 at Glen Echo Park too. Wurlitzer 165 posted below.

[anglerfly]

@Wurlitzer157 Its bad energy

[MrWurlitzer165]

@Wurlitzer157 Seabreeze did carefully research the options. Verbeeck, unlike Stinson, was able to produce an EXACT replica of the Wurlitzer 165 with all its register stops. He took detailed measurements from Bob Gilson's Wurlitzer 165 and replicated the pipe work and case design to a T. Don Stinson has his own ideas and builds organs that are very different in every way from the Wurlitzer 165.

BTW, it's Verbeeck, with a C.

[Wurlitzer157]

@MrWurlitzer165

Oh I hate that story...

It saddens me every single time...

[MrWurlitzer165]

The March 31, 1994, fire started not because employees were tearing down a roof. They were up on the roof of the long building attached to the M-G-R that housed the Pizza Stand, Penny Arcade, Ghost Train/Enchanter, and Goofy House, with propane torches, block tar, and a couple of fire extinguishers (just in case), and were melting the tar to patch holes in the roof. It was a windy day and the tar caught fire.  They tried to battle the flames, but the wind got the best of them. Total loss.