Archives and Music

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Leavenworth, KS 66048

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Identify a Carousel Figure
NCA archivists will help identify carousels or individual figures, and help gather historical information about original carousels. Click here for more information.

Articles

• Books, Books, Books…
  A Carousel bibliography by Brian Morgan - added August 2004
• Major Carousel Builders and Carvers
  An introduction (Brian Morgan, 2001)
• NCA Archives
  Jerry B. Reinhardt
• NCA Purchases Primitive Flying Horses
• The NCA's Primitive Carousel gets set up in Leavenworth. Part II

• Online aritcles about the carousel world:
  • Rebuilding a Carousel
    Elmira, NY.
  • As water rises, man sleeps beside carousel he restored
    

Band Organ Tunes

MP3 format

• Drifting Along
  A waltz by M.K. Jerome (1MB download)
• Pick Me Up And Lay Me Down In Dear Old Dixieland
  by Kalmar & Ruby, arr. by Tom Meijer. (650 KB)
• Hello, Dolly!
  By Jerry Herman. (1.7 MB)
• Carioca
  By Vincent Youmans. (700 KB)
• Repasz Band
  The signature march, by Charles C. Sweeley, of the Repasz Band, still playing in Williamsport, Pa. (2 MB)

RealAudio format

• 6504
  This is an unknown march from roll 6504. If anyone recognizes it, we'd love to know!
• 505A-5
  This is an unknown waltz from roll 6505.
• 6505A-2
  A raggy tune from roll 6505, also unidentified so far.
• 6505A-10
  Leo Edwards' "Isle d'Amour," a waltz from the 1913 edition of "Ziegfeld Follies.

Thanks to Matthew Caulfield for the addition of the above tunes. A long-time NCA member, Matthew has extensively researched Wurlitzer band organ rolls and maintains a web site dedicated to the style 165 rolls at: http://www.wurlitzer-rolls.com/. Read an appreciation of the site by Teresa Magdanz, a graduate student in music at the University of Toronto, at http://www.discourses.ca/v3n2a4.html.