SPOKANE, Wash. — A historic Spokane landmark is working to recapture a piece of its musical past that has been silent for decades.
The Looff Carrousel, which has delighted Spokane residents for 50 years, is undergoing a restoration project to bring back its original band organ music that has been silent for the past 40 years. Currently, the band organ sits disassembled, appearing as little more than a bundle of wires.
Betty Largent, a retired carousel caretaker, is spearheading the restoration efforts. “Band organs make me cry. That is what I fell in love with as a child, because when you went to the state fair or whatever, they had actual band organs on the carousels,” Largent said…