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5 unusual facts about Waldkirch


Crescent Park Looff Carousel

An Andreas Ruth und Sohn Style 38 band organ, imported from Waldkirch, Germany, provides music from a Wurlitzer 165 music roll system, which replaced the original German cardboard book music system.

Karl Jäger

After World War I, Jäger, an orchestrion maker by profession, obtained a managerial position with the Weber orchestrion factory in Waldkirch.

Limonaire Frères

After restructuring in 1887, the company expanded so well based on book-based organs, that they opened a factory in the German Black Forest town of Waldkirch, center of fairground organ building industry.

Myrtle Beach Pavilion

The Baden Band Organ one of the parks other historical features was originally hand-built, decorated and crafted by Ruth & Sohn in Waldkirch Baden, Germany for display at the 1900 World Exposition in Paris.

Nunley's Happyland

According to Mechanical Music Digest Archives, the organ was built by A. Ruth & Sohn of Waldkirch, Germany in 1910, and was the only one of its kind.


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Carl Frei

Born in Schiltach in the Black Forest, Frei studied music from a young age, and at nine he was studying harmony and counterpoint at the Waldkirch academy of music.

St. Gallen District

In the former district of St. Gallen (now Wahlkreis St. Gallen), they do but five more municipalities were included: Andwil, Eggersriet, Gaiserwald, Gossau and Waldkirch.


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