I Rescued A Rare Artizan C-1 Military Band Organ!

I am excited to unveil that I bought the Ex. Champion/Dr. Stanley Artizan C-1 deluxe military band organ Serial 478! This organ originally was owned by Tom Champion of Terre Haute, Indiana (a friend of Paul Eakins the founder Gay 90s Village) in the 1950s/60s who also owned a large collection of other band organs and circus themed objects including the Wurlitzer 180 that is now in the Sanfillippo "Place de la Musique" collection in Barrington Hills, IL, a steam calliope wagon (now in a circus museum someplace in Indiana), a Wurlitzer 153 (now in an Ohio collection) and multiple Artizan machines including one that played Wurlitzer 150 and one that played 125 rolls. After sold from Tom Champion, it was repaired by the late Mike Kitner and later sold to Dr. Stanley who was a suicide researcher and neuroscientist who passed away in 1993. Out of circulation for about 40 years, his wife Dr. Barbara Stanley kept the organ and eventually was placed in the storage unit in New Jersey hidden directly below a Dollar Tree. I picked it up from the storage unit after Dr. Barbara Stanley passed away recently and the Stanley's daughter is who put the organ for sale! The organ came with many 61 key Artizan D rolls, 61 key B.A.B recuts and rolls for Artizan "C" instruments. My Artizan today is one of two "C-1s" now known. This Artizan was one of four owned by Tom Champion. He had a Artizan C-1 on a parade unit (the organ which I now own but the truck it was on in the day is long gone), a Artizan C-2 (whereabouts unknown), Artizan X-A (now owned by Dan Swartz?) and one other I do not know what model it was or it's current whereabouts. These were said to have perhaps come from traveling carnivals in the day (which is who maybe bought these direct from the Artizan Factories in the 1920s?). I do know mine is NOT the one that was playing off Wurlitzer 125 or 150 rolls. All the various rolls that came with my organ came from Tom Champion (which he would have played on it). My organ's most prominent use in the day was that it went out to Richard Nixon rallies in 1968 in Terre Haute and Indianapolis, Indiana. The music heard in my video is not from my actual Artizan but MIDI scans of the 87 key Artizan scale music.