The 115-year-old Diamond Jubilee Fairground Organ has just returned from 18 months of restoration in England and will perform its first concert at Wayland’s Earth Day celebration on Sunday, April 29 ...
Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" has inspired many inventive cover versions throughout the years. But have you ever heard the 1975 rock hit played on a fairground organ that's over 100 years old? If you ...
The “happiest music on Earth” will return to Carillon Historical Park next weekend for the 43rd annual Band Organ Rally. The upbeat definition was coined to describe band organs, the mechanically ...
Wayland resident Roger Wiegand has achieved a major goal, fulfilling a dream that began in 1979. That was when he realized that he wanted to own an instrument known as a band organ, which is designed ...
Stravinsky’s “Petrouchka,” it turns out, sounds just dandy as fairground-organ music. The familiar tunes of the 1911 ballet, delivered in rinky-dink style, are the first thing to greet you as you ...
Dennis Robinson was just 9 when he heard what sounded like an entire band coming from a colorful organ in the center of the Willow Grove Park carousel. And he was hooked. That summer he got a job at ...
The music of yesteryear is still some pretty good music. Mike Stevens found just how good when he made a stop on The Pennsylvania Road in Wayne County to see a machine that thinks it's an orchestra ...
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