No. Tonawanda Military Band Organ

16 key Military Band
Manufactured 1912 by North Tonawanda Musical Instrument Works of North Tonawanda, NY. Owned and Operated by the W.F. Markley, Jr. Family of Dallastown, Pa. Reconditioned by J. Hilferty.

Visible Instruments:
13 brass trumpets, 14 piccolos, 14 flageolets, bass and snare drums, cymbals.
Instruments in bottom:
5 stopped basses, 14 stopped pipes, 9 stopped pipes in accompaniment.
Instruments inside:
5 open basses, 3 trombones, 14 open viola pipes, 9 open pipes in accompaniment.
Stops:
1 for trumpets, 1 for trombones, 1 for piccolos.
Mounted on a 1927 White truck.

As seen at the Zolfo Springs engine and tractor show, Zolfo Springs, Florida.

http://www.old-engine.com/zolfo.htm

http://www.smokstak.com/forum/

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[Karlfalcon]

It sounds like it could be "I love you a bushel and a peck."

[KawhackitaRag]

No sir, this is a model 155 owned by a collector in Pennsylvania, USA. The organ Preston had was a model 37 that has since been sold to a happy owner in Shropshire. These models are identical in pipework and scale, however the 37 plays from a pinned cylinder and has no drums, whereas the 155 has drums on side brackets and plays from a paper roll.

[douro20]

Interesting accumulator- I guess they couldn't be bothered with a take-up roll.

[GermanStreetOrgan]

Are you sure that its only got 16 keys? it sounds better than 16 keys.

[csdmommy]

I have seen quite a few people referring to this event as "The Zolfo Springs Engine and Tractor Show", but it is actually called "Pioneer Park Days". It did have another name when I was a child, but for the last 20 or so years it has had this new name. I hope this helps anyone out when trying to look up information for it. Also, it is traditionally held towards the end of February, beginning of March, every year. We hold a parade on the Saturday of festivities. -C.

[SeeburgMusic]

Not all Wurlitzer 125's have trombones.

[anglerfly]

U=Is this the one in bill black's carousel music?

[anglerfly]

@augpeh Its a bushel and a pek

[anglerfly]

@wurly164 NOrth tonawanda is stared byL Eugene de kliest

[KawhackitaRag]

Finally, the Wurlitzer 125 has five wooden trombones that play all the time from the bass section (unless manually turned off with a draw stop), while the North Tonawanda 155 has three wooden trombones that play from their own three notes on the music roll, separate from the five-note bass section.

[KawhackitaRag]

Yeah, they're nearly identical except that for some unexplained reason, the Wurlitzer has 13 melody notes and 10 accompaniment notes, whereas the North Tonawanda has a more logical division of 14 melody notes and 9 accompaniment notes. (one note got moved over). Interestingly, the Wurlitzer 104 has the more logical division as well, since it was based upon the model 17 barrel organ, whereas the 125 comes from the model 18 barrel organ.

[KawhackitaRag]

In 1906, several disgruntled DeKleist employees left the company and founded the competing North Tonawanda Musical Instrument Works. In 1909, Wurlitzer bought out the DeKleist company and started manufacturing their own band organs. For more than a decade, Wurlitzer and NTMIW were practically the only games in town, with the exception of the tiny and unrelated Niagara Musical Instrument Manufacturing Co.

In 1922, several disgruntled NTMIW/Rand employees founded Artizan Factories.