Knott's Berry Farm ride on 1905 Dentzel merry go round.

Full ride on Knott's Berry Farm's 1905 Dentzel merry go round, recorded on 12/14/10. The ride has no band organ, instead it uses a 6 speaker sound system playing the CD "Catch a Brass Ring".

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• knott's
• berry
• farm
• carousel
• merry
• go
• round
• dentzel
• band
• organ

[inn22]

That is why do I not support "Theme parks", I work for Knoebels and the very heart of who we is our carousels and the organs. A lot the theme parks are running into bankrupcy issues, and I believe that is because they unessisarily jack up prices and pave over thier heritage. A park that lacks tradition, lacks a soul.

[koasterkav]

@inn22 I agree. There are only a couple of traditional parks out west. The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in California. (They will have 3 band organs in their MGR building in 2011). Also the Lagoon Amusement Park just north of Salt Lake City Utah. They have a band organ, but I've heard it's been broken for a while now and they are looking to do something about it. I have heard nothing but the very best about Knoebels. Would love to visit there somethine!

[KawhackitaRag]

@koasterkav I read your comment about Lagoon Amusement Park and its band organ and found that interesting, in that I'd never heard of either the park or the organ before. Turns out the park has been around since the 1890s, the carousel since the early 1900s, and the organ since the 1970s. It is a newer "Freedola" built by Richard Freed. There are one or two other "Freedola" band organs in the American Treasure Tour collection in Pennsylvania.

[koasterkav]

@KawhackitaRag Hello. I'm glad you discovered Lagoon north of Salt Lake City, and surprised you did not know about it. They have a John Miller wooden roller coaster there too. A band organ friend in California told me about their band organ issue, saying they did not like the job the person did on it. The carousel is a Hershell Spiellman, which the park saved from a big fired the park suffered sometime back. To find out more about Lagoon, look it up on the web. I work at a park.

[tregnier279]

Well, it SHOULD have a band organ. I don't know anyone who likes canned organ sounds on a real carousel.

[koasterkav]

@tregnier279 I totally agree! Welcome to the new world of theme parks, where they don't care about tradition and history anymore. They think a carousel is just there as another ride, and nothing more. It's all about profit. BTW it's THIS carousel that Bud Hurlbut owned, that opened the door to him building the mine train and log ride and the benchmark of Knott's history. Bud told me they don't care about history, and about what big new ride they can put in. "Windseeker" in 2011.

[anglerfly]

@koasterkav But you didnt write that the tune name at 0:00 is "The Merry Go Round Broke down".

[whoisthisguy724]

@Wurlitzer157 So sad that so many of these beautiful band organs have gone unplayed for so long. We need to find some way to force Cedar fair to either sell the organs to good homes or get them playing again

[whoisthisguy724]

@Wurlitzer157 So sad that so many of these beautiful band organs have gone unplayed for so long. We need to find some way to force Cedar fair to either sell the organs to GOOD homes or get them playing again...

[electricalparade]

I know a gentleman who used to work this, and he admitted that they were actually playing a CD.

[Wurlitzer157]

@tregnier279

They DO have a band organ, actually band organs. One is a 157 sitting high on top of the carousel. Obviously not playing. Another is a 153, now in storage.