The organ was built by A. Ruth & Sohn in Waldkirch Baden, Germany and was first exhibited at the 1900 World Exposition in Paris. After the exposition, it was moved from town to town in Europe on a wagon pulled by a team of six horses. The Myrtle Beach Pavilion amusement park acquired the organ in 1957. When the park closed in 2006, the organ was moved a couple of miles to Broadway at the Beach.
The two-ton pipe organ features 98 keys and 400 pipes. The elaborately carved machine is adorned with 18 lifelike figures with 12 of them spinning and dancing to each tune.
It still runs on what it did more than 100 years ago ... hand-fed cardboard sheet music.
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