WurliTzer Monster Military Band Organ - The Waltz of the Zebras

The WurliTzer Monster Military Band Organ is one of the largest styles of Band Organ ever made by the Rudolph WurliTzer Company. Only three are known to exist today.

One, which we hear in these recordings, operates at the Kit Carson County Carousel in Colorado. http://www.kitcarsoncountycarousel.com/

The other two Monsters left in existence are in private collections. One plays the original 100 key roll along with an external 165 roll frame. The other played one of the large B.A.B. scales (87 keys) and was for sale as of a few years ago.

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• Zebras

[wurlitzer165]

Correct, the Wurlitzers 150 and 155 are both military band organs back then, because it had brass pipes (piccolos, clarinets, trumpets and trombones). Most later band organs were substituted with wooden pipes for Wurlitzer styles 146, 153, 157, and 165 organs; the larger styles (153 and 165) advertized as "Duplex Orchestral Organs," due to the fact that it had more violin and chello pipes, and were suted for carousells and dance pavilions.

[SeeburgMusic]

Waltz of the Zebras???? This is "Smarty" played in waltz time.

[sousafan100]

a fine organ and selection - this waltz is unfamiliar - it's a keeper though - thanks treg

[wurlitzer153duplex]

@wurlitzer165 I forwarded your find to the MMD, if you don't mind, as it's the best way of informing the general band organ community, and Art Reblitz in particular.

[wurlitzer153duplex]

@wurlitzer165 Thanks!

It's available over at IN Harmony. Oddly enough, their version has the verse in even 2/4 time instead of the flowing waltz time. The chorus, however, is the waltz we are familiar with.

For those who'd like to know, the first line of the chorus is "Smar-ty, Smar-ty, Smarrrr-tyyyy, Thought you had a parrrr-tyyyy."

[wurlitzer165]

I've identified the tune. The tune is "Smarty, by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer, 1908. Albert Von Tilzer was best known as "Take Me Out To the Ball Game," written in the same year.

[wurlitzer165]

I've identified the tune. The tune is "Smarty."

[Thunkful2]

beautiful

[anglerfly]

SOunds diffrent than a wurlITzer 150

and there both military band organs