Myrtle Beach, SC - 1900 Carousel Organ

Built by Waldkirch Baden, Germany by A. Ruth and Sohn, the two-ton pipe organ was first exhibited at the 1900 World Exposition in Paris. Featuring 98keys and 400 pipes, the organ has 18 lifelike figures that adorn the elaborately carved machine, with 12 of them spinning and dancing to each tune. It still runs on what it did more than 100 years ago... hand-fed cardboard sheet music.

** Picture taken September 2008, relocated to Pavillion Nostalgia Park in Broadway by the Beach, Myrtle Beach, SC

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• 1900
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• baden
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[M38Ruth]

This organ was built in 1906, not 1900 like the plaque says. It has 96 keys, now played from a midi interface.

[M38Ruth]

Star Wars Catina Band and The Throne Room - end Credits. Arr. by Wayne Holton

[arburo1]

Ruth made 23 Model 38 organs, the first in 1903. See Waldkirch Street and Fairground Organs by Herbert Juttemann, the world's expert on Waldkirch products.

[arburo1]

Sorry, but this sounds awful! Please play some original Ruth or Gustav Bruder books. Very few modern arrangers can do justice to the large Ruth scales. Also, an organ of this calibre shouldn't be adulterated with a MIDI interface. Books last for ever if cared for.

[M38Ruth]

@GermanStreetOrgan Stinson added a MIDI interface to it when he restored it for it's 100th birthday in 2006.

[GermanStreetOrgan]

I wonder where it got this MIDI file.

[GermanStreetOrgan]

I thought it was converted to 165 rolls.

[M38Ruth]

@2facelessdopes There are records out there that prove the build date of 1906. Besides, the first organ of this Model number (38) was built in 1903.

[2facelessdopes]

The organ was first exhibited in Paris at the World Exposition of 1900 so how could if have been built in 1906.

[UberWagen]

This is my favorite thing at Broadway. It was out of order last time I went though.

[anglerfly]

Star wars