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#WURLITZER ORGAN MODEL 4150A INSTALL#
The console is on a platform to the left of the screen where in the future it is hoped to install a lift so that the console can 'rise' in true cinema organ fashion! The two chambers are installed under the stage and speak through grilles below the screen. In 2010, the organ was purchased by the Furness Theatre Organ Project who installed it here at the Royalty after giving it an excellent restoration. It remained here until the 1970s but fortunately was stored by an enthusiast after removal. After the introduction of the 'talkies' not long after, the organ was shipped over to England and installed at the Rex Cinema in the London suburb of Stratford. The organ is a 2 manual 7 rank instrument and was opus 1719 built in 1927 for the Almira Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio. For me this is organ preservation at its very best combining old and new technology but without destroying character. The organ has been fitted with a computerised action system and some minor modifications made but specification wise, remains almost original. In the mid 1990s, the Free Trade Hall closed and a new home was found in the ballroom at Stockport Town Hall. In 1975, following the closure of the Odeon, the organ was installed by the Lancastrian Theatre Organ Trust in the Free Trade Hall literally up the road from the Odeon.
#WURLITZER ORGAN MODEL 4150A MANUALS#
It was built in 1930 for the beautiful Paramount (later Odeon) Theatre in Manchester city centre and has 4 manuals and 20 ranks of pipes plus a piano attachment. This, in my opinion, has to be the finest Wurlitzer organ we now have in the United Kingdom. The following are a few instruments I have played (or attempting to!) around the United Kingdom:
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Therefore I couldnt resist the urge to make a section dedicated to the other major builder of theatre organs in the United Kingdom! As well as Compton organs, I am a great enthusiast by of instruments built by the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company of Tonawanda in the United States of America.