Another Treasure Trove
I found wurlitzer-rolls.com and emailed the site owner:
Your website is an incredible treasure trove of music from the past - thank you for sharing it with everyone. You'll think this is a very strange request for information, I'm sure, but for the past few years I've been doing performances inside the virtual world Second Life and currently have a vaudeville troupe of about twelve or so people. Our shows feature original acts, and we perform for fun. A video record (in 4 parts) of the 2007 show is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
We use interesting public domain or open source music - found in various places on the internet (credits are at the end of the video which is Part 4). Is any or all of the organ roll music on your site music that can be used in such a way (live performance and most likely a video documenting the show)? We are currently looking for music to fit acts for a flea circus - yes, we become fleas :-D In any event, I'm glad I stumbled across your website!
I received a prompt reply brimming with information about pre-1923 public domain music and the confused state of copyright of later music, and other things. For love of these paper rolls and the forgotten music contained therein, the site owner created a way for everyone to listen to the music. Indeed, the internet is wonderful for that very thing - putting things that would've lost their audience out for the world to remember or discover. My hat is off :-D
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- 6:22 PM
- 6:22 PM
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Hell's Donkeys! You are a star! And a life saver - I had only just (as of last night) put the whole Freeplay music thing to bed as their lower offer was still too high and restrictive to be used (although thay couldn't have been nicer to deal with) and was slumping into the slough of despond.
Now you come along and haul me back out! I'm at work at the moment so can't listen, but tonight I shall gorge myself silly on these tunes and search for replacements we can use for the soon-to-be-ready fela circus!*
* Please note that soon-to-be-ready in no way implies a deadline or timescale. The value of investments may go down as well as up. Running with scissors can be dangerous. The Corrs are shite. As are Katie Melua, Norah Jones, Jamie Cullen and all the Beddingfields. Thank you.
Now you come along and haul me back out! I'm at work at the moment so can't listen, but tonight I shall gorge myself silly on these tunes and search for replacements we can use for the soon-to-be-ready fela circus!*
* Please note that soon-to-be-ready in no way implies a deadline or timescale. The value of investments may go down as well as up. Running with scissors can be dangerous. The Corrs are shite. As are Katie Melua, Norah Jones, Jamie Cullen and all the Beddingfields. Thank you.
# posted by 
: 30 September, 2008 01:35
: 30 September, 2008 01:35
"WURLITZER MILITARY BAND ORGAN "Style 165 - Duplex Orchestral Organ"
Features 256 wooden pipes and 22 bell bars. Weighs about 3000 lbs. - has 69 keys and plays a style 165 band organ roll. The largest generally available Wurlitzer band organ. Designed "For the largest type stationary Carouselles, roller coasters and other park installations. Used with great success in park dance pavilions." Equipped with duplex tracker frame and automatic pipe registers. Organ front is elaborately decorated, with heavily carved scroll work, enamel colors and raised panels, A beautiful and massive organ. Perhaps Wurlitzer's best."
Features 256 wooden pipes and 22 bell bars. Weighs about 3000 lbs. - has 69 keys and plays a style 165 band organ roll. The largest generally available Wurlitzer band organ. Designed "For the largest type stationary Carouselles, roller coasters and other park installations. Used with great success in park dance pavilions." Equipped with duplex tracker frame and automatic pipe registers. Organ front is elaborately decorated, with heavily carved scroll work, enamel colors and raised panels, A beautiful and massive organ. Perhaps Wurlitzer's best."
# posted by : 30 September, 2008 06:41
: 30 September, 2008 06:41
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