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A Restoration Project

This site gives a brief perspective of the acquisition, research and restoration progress of this 1925 Wilhelm Bruder and Sons organ.

Wurlitzer 165 Rolls For Sale

Most are 1980's Play-Rite recuts. $50.00 each plus shipping. $40.00 each plus shipping when you buy 4 or more.
If interested in a roll please email Sam the roll numbers.

30 rolls have been sold.

The rolls remaining are listed below.

UNNUMBERED ROLL (ROLL NUMBER 6528/6537-A)
"Overture Special" (Length of a fifteen-tune roll)
1. Morning, Noon, And Night In Vienna: Overture (From roll 6528) (Franz von Suppe) (Feb 1884)
2. William Tell: Overture (From roll 6528) (Gioacchino Rossini) (1825)
3. Zampa: Overture (From roll 6537) (L. J. Herold) (1831)
NOTE: The above is the tune order when the roll was issued as the "Overture Special" roll; when issued as roll 6528/6537A, the tunes were in the following order: 3, 1, 2.

ROLL NUMBER 6503
1. Officer Of The Day (R. B. Hall) (Jun 20, 1903) March-TS
2. Wedding Of The Winds (John T. Hall) (Apr 2, 1896) Grand Waltz
3. Stars And Stripes Forever (John P. Sousa) (May 14, 1897) March
4. Artist's Life (Op. 316) (Johann Strauss) (Aug 1867) Waltz
5. Through The Line (W. Paris Chambers) (Oct 1, 1903) March-TS
6. On The Beautiful Blue Danube (Op. 314) (Johann Strauss) (May 1867) Waltz
7. Our Director (F. E. Bigelow) (May 7, 1895) March
8. Love's Dream After The Ball = Liebestraum nach dem Balle (Op. 356) (Alphons Czibulka) (1890) Waltz
9. The Thunderer (John P. Sousa) (Nov 1, 1889) March
10. One Thousand And One Nights (Op. 346) (Johann Strauss) (Aug 1871) Waltz

ROLL NUMBER 6524 "Cuban Danzon"
(1) Los Matrimonios, Salvavidas (Missing on known copies) * (Armando Romeu) Danzon
2. La Ultima Rumba (Tota Pereira) Danzon
3. El Manzanero (Antonio Maria Romeu) Danzon
4. El Siboney (Antonio Maria Romeu) Danzon
5. Que Paso? O El Relicario (Sergio Pita) Danzon
6. Corralito (Antonio Maria Romeu) Danzon
7. La Ley Seca (Antonio Maria Romeu) Danzon
8. Ecos de Miami (M. Anton. Delgado y Cruz) Danzon
9. Se Rompio Lo Cacharro (A. Joffre) Danzon
10. Esta Es La Ultima Rumba (Sergio Pita) Danzon
* Late recuts have the B.A.B. arrangement of the fox trot "Amapola" (Joseph M. Lacalle)(Dec 15, 1924) substituted as tune 1. Although "Los Matrimonios, Salvavidas" has not survived on any known roll, Chris Carlisle, proprietor of the musical website www.bandorganmusic.com, has a recording, made by his grandfather Paul Eakins, of the missing tune as played on a 157 band organ. Click here to hear that recording.
NOTE: Most, perhaps all, of the tunes on this roll have note-for-note interpolations from other Wurlitzer 165 tunes in them, such as phrases from "Beautiful Ohio" in tune 3, "Ja-Da, Ja-Da, Ja-Da" in tune 7, "On Miami Shore" in tune 8, "Chong, He Come From Hong Kong" in tune 10. The other tunes where interpolations have not been recognized may still contain them, taken from other, lost Wurlitzer rolls. For example tune 6 contains passages that sound exactly like phrases from "Ecos de Lisboa" (by Goris & Aceves?).

ROLL NUMBER 6712 "Christmas Roll" (First sold Nov 26, 1956)
1. Jingle Bells (J. S. Pierpont) (1857)
2. White Christmas (From the Paramount film "Holiday Inn") (Irving Berlin) (May 6, 1942)
3. Winter Wonderland (Felix Bernard) (Nov 9, 1934)
4. Silent Night, Holy Night (Franz Gruber) (1818)
5. Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer (Johnny Marks) (May 9, 1949)
6. Jolly Old Saint Nicholas (A. Kimball) (Dec 9, 1910)

ROLL NUMBER 6809 "American Marches"
1. American Patrol (From roll 6516) (F. W. Meacham) (Mar 30, 1885) March
2. National Emblem (From roll 6501) (Edwin Eugene Bagley) (Jun 30, 1906) March
3. General Pershing (From roll 6511) (Carl D. Vandersloot) (Mar 9, 1918) March-TS
4. Lights Out (From roll 6529) (Earl E. McCoy) (Mar 6, 1905) March
5. The Minstrel King (From roll 6512) (Charles C. Sweeley) (Jan 16, 1911) March-TS
6. The Midnight Flyer (From roll 6530) (Frederick W. Hager) (Apr 7, 1903) March
7. Our Director (From roll 6503) (F. E. Bigelow) (May 7, 1895) March
8. Manhattan Beach (From roll 6526) (John P. Sousa) (Sep 10, 1893) March
9. Repasz Band (From roll 6530) (Charles C. Sweeley) (Jul 2, 1901) March
The Volunteers (From roll 6511) (John P. Sousa) (May 10, 1918) March

ROLL NUMBER 6810 "All Sousa March Roll"
1. The U.S. Field Artillery March (From roll 6511) (John P. Sousa) (Jan 22, 1918) March
2. Stars And Stripes Forever (From roll 6503) (John P. Sousa) (May 14, 1897) March
3. Hands Across The Sea (From roll 6501) (John P. Sousa) (Apr 28, 1899) March-TS
4. Seventh Regiment (Gray Jackets) (From roll 6530) Ernest Neyer)* (1897) March
5. The Naval Reserve March (From roll 6511) (John P. Sousa) (Jan 28, 1917) March
6. The Diplomat (From roll 6501) (John P. Sousa) (Nov 21, 1904) March
7. Liberty Bell (From roll 6529) (John P. Sousa) (Nov 25, 1893) March
8. El Capitan (From roll 6516) (John P. Sousa) (May 18, 1896) March
9. The Thunderer (From roll 6503) (John P. Sousa) (Nov 1, 1899) March
10. Sabre And Spurs (March Of The American Cavalry) (From roll 6512) (John P. Sousa) (Jul 6, 1918) March
* The original tune list of roll 6530 is unavailable to verify the composer credit. Eight marches were written for the Seventh Regiment, and only the one by Neyer has the title as given. Sousa cannot be the composer because roll 6530 was issued before he composed his march for the Seventh Regiment.

ROLL NUMBER 6813 "Strauss Waltzes"
1. Roses From The South (Op. 388) (From roll 6502) (Johann Strauss) (Oct 2, 1880) Waltzes
2. Vienna Blood = Wiener Blut (Op. 354) (From roll 6529) (Johann Strauss) (Jul 1873) Waltz
3. Artist's Life (Op. 316) (From roll 6503) (Johann Strauss) (Aug 1867) Waltz
4. Wine, Women, And Song (Op. 333) (From roll 6530) (Johann Strauss) (Aug 1869) Waltz
5. You And You = Du Und Du (Op. 367) (From "The Bat" = "Die Fledermaus") (From roll 6526) (Johann Strauss) (Jun 1874) Waltz
6. On The Beautiful Blue Danube (Op. 314) (From roll 6503) (Johann Strauss) (May 1867) Waltzes
7. Bonita (From roll 6527) (S. B. Egan) (1909) Waltz
8. Marsovia (From roll 6530) (Henriette Blanke-Belcher) (Apr 24, 1908) Waltzes
9. Kiss Waltz (Op. 400) (From roll 6529) (Johann Strauss) (1882) Waltz
10. One Thousand And One Nights (Op. 346) (From roll 6503) (Johann Strauss) (Aug 1871) Waltzes

B.A.B. ROLL NUMBER UNKNOWN
1.Amapola = Poppy (Made famous by the 1939 Universal film "First Love") (Joseph M. Lacalle) (Dec 15, 1924) Fox Trot
2.Junior Order March(William Edward Menghi)(Oct 26, 1932) March
3.Isle Of Capri (Will Grosz) (Jul 27, 1934) Fox Trot
4.The Farmer Takes A Wife (Tobias, Freed & Mencher) (Jan 2, 1935) Two Step
5.No! No! A Thousand Times No ("A melodrama in song") (Sherman, Lewis & Silver) (Nov 1, 1934) Waltz
6.The Continental (From the RKO film "The Gay Divorcee") (Con Conrad) (Sep 4, 1934) Fox Trot
7.College Rhythm (From the Paramount film "College Rhythm") (Gordon & Revel) (Oct 12, 1934) Two Step
8.Blue Moon (Richard Rodgers) (Dec 5, 1934) Fox Trot
9.La Cucaracha (Mexican folk song) (From the RKO-Radio film "La Cucaracha") (adap. Juan Y. d'Lorah) (Aug 9, 1934) Tango
10.When I Grow Too Old To Dream (From the MGM film "The Night Is Young") (Sigmund Romberg) (Jan 10, 1935) Waltz
NOTE: This roll is probably an attempt to reconstitute original B.A.B roll 014, but with two changes.

B.A.B. ROLL LETTERED H (is roll # 026) (1944)
1. V For Victory (Lew Tobin) (Oct 5, 1943) March
2. By The Sleepy Lagoon (Valse serenade) (Eric Coates) (Nov 10, 1930) Waltz
3. The World's Progress (Victor Herbert) (Jul 5, 1916) March
4. Paradise (From the 1932 RKO film "A Woman Commands") (Nacio Herb Brown) (Dec 29, 1931) Waltz
5. The Long Islanders March
6. Save The Last Dance For Me (Frank Magine) (Oct 29, 1931) Waltz
7. I Can't Remember (Irving Berlin) (Mar 25, 1933) Waltz
8. Welcome Home Possibilities: Welcome Home (From "On With The Show") Welcome Home (From "Blaze Of Glory") (Harry Akst) (James F. Hanley) (May 18, 1929) (Jan 10, 1930) March
9. My Angeline (Mabel Wayne) (Jan 24, 1929) Waltz
10. Sabre And Spurs (March Of The American Cavalry) (John P. Sousa) (Jul 6, 1918) March