"Waldteufel: Estudiantina" *TRACK 1 FROM "WORLD'S LARGEST CAROUSEL" CASSETTE*

This is "Waldteufel: Estudiantina" as heard from the 1990 "World's Largest Carousel & Other Selections from the House on the Rock" cassette tape (once sold in the House on the Rock Gift Shop). This has been remastered for optimal stereo experience by the House on the Rock studio. This has been remastered for optimal stereo experience by the House on the Rock studio. This track is of the Carousel Room musical contraption and about 1/4 of the extremely rare 80 Keyless Gebruder Bruder Waldkirch "Elite Orchestra Apollo" organ (it's flute, flageolet, piccolo, clarinet?, brass trumpet, bass, bassoon and baritone pipes elegant and precisely tuned and voiced to the audio track portion). The track is from when this was first set up and it is believed that most (if not all) of the contraptions in the exhibit (many of which today are just for show) all functioned (including the jugs, Una-Fon bells, trumpet en chamade, glockenspiel bells, xylophone to name a few). The rare Gebruder Bruder 80 keyless "Elite Orchestra Apollo" was in a modified format (from the 1980s until later restored in the mid 2000s) and was a part harmoniously composed into the classical musical arrangements arranged by the late David Kraehenbuehl (and partially played onsite at the least) along with audio piped in through speakers (all the utilized organ actions had to have been routed through the "black box" to keep it synced with the piped in audio track loop). The organ remained in the Carousel Room as late as 2004 (although the pipes themselves not playable at all anymore by 2001/02 despite reports of air still being supplied to them then). By 2005, the organ was itself shipped overseas to Germany (in really bad shape) to be converted and restored back to it's original factory design/format. The organ itself returned in 2006 to the Transportation Building but only partially "complete" (but is nowadays never played because of the MIDI system installed not working and was put off due to it's loud volume and perhaps since it has yet to be voiced following restoration). However, this is one that is to be worked on in the future once all the most popular music machines in the Attraction are worked on! The additive golden cherubs that adorned it while in the Carousel Room remained there until 2007 and supposedly still functional (despite the organ no longer to be at that location). These were eventually dismantled (as part of the 2007/2008 "major renovation" to the entrances/exits to the Attraction) to install a wheelchair lift (to make the exit more accessible). The jugs are interesting because they likely would have had to have been filled with liquid to different levels to tune them (and they sound authentic on the audio track). These would have been extremely difficult to even keep in tune with constant evaporation and due to precisely having to tune them daily. They probably just stopped doing it long ago (sometime in the 1980s) and instead started faking the sound electronically on audio tracks due to their difficulties (which was for sure done as early as 1988). However in 2010, they did service this section and got some of their beater actions to somewhat work for a brief period then (but didn't tune them or anything though). Besides at one point in the 1980s??, this rendition of the arrangement was later used in the Carousel Room from the early 1990s at times until 1995? with the Bruder pipes composed into it (after the pipes used for making Mellotron samples for instruments in the Circus Room Band/Orchestra stuff were then rigged up behind the Bruder facade off a photocopier blower?) to play certain parts of the arrangement onsite at the Carousel. In this one, there seems to be a pizzicato part that was either done with a synthesizer onsite (like the clavichord part in the Franz Josef) or on a cleverly piped in audio track (this may be more likely because an onsite synthesizer is not believed to have ever been used in this exhibit as far as what's known) or mechanically played somehow. The rest is probably at least partially played onsite (such as the Gebruder Bruder which is believed to have at least partially produced sound at the least). A fully piped in rendition of this composition altered from the rendition featured on the 1990 album was played at most time until early 2000s also activating only the percussion. PLEASE NOTE: Use headphones for optimal listening! It is hard to say what aspects exactly are authentic and which parts are piped in audio track (there seems to be a combination of both). Most of the pictures are from my recent visits with exception to the image of the Gebruder Bruder which was contributed by Lucas Allen. The copyright laws of the United States recognizes a "fair use" of copyrighted content and I intend this content to fall under that criteria under the best of my knowledge as to be for research purposes.