7 April—Response to 4 April’s What impressive organs! disquisition has been overwhelming and overwhelmingly from readers who fondly remember the mellifluous sonorities of the fairground organs at amusement parks and fairs they visited before digital electronics corrupted the world.

Several more mature readers of local provenance remembered the carousel organ at the late Savin Rock Amusement Park in West Haven, which gave up the ghost some 60 years ago. But the electric-motor-driven Savin Rock Gavioli, having been preserved and renovated, found its way to the AL. Ringling Mansion in Baraboo, Wisconsin, where it sits in the cafeteria. Presumably it plays while visitors nosh.

Albert Carl, who went by Al. or AL., was the eldest of the five Ringling (originally Rüngling) brothers of circus fame. And Franco-Italian Gavioli was one of the foremost fairground organ builders, with branches in England, Germany, and right down in New York.

So here, following pictures of the Savin Rock Gavioli, are some warhorses played on fairground organs: Teddy Bears’ Picnic by J.W. Bratton; Can-Can (Galop Infernal) by Jacques Offenbach; Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Franz Liszt; Blue Danube Waltz (An der schönen blauen Donau) by Johann Strauss II; and part of the overture to William Tell by Gioachino Rossini—played on the Savin Rock Gavioli.