Until 1915, the Style 6-a 2-3/5 manual 13 rank instrument occupied that position. This is Wurlitzer's second attempt at building a medium-sized Unit Orchestra capable of filling some of the larger Vaudeville theatres that were beginning to crop up in the mid-teens. Its sale was really an economic necessity given the owner it went to after Steve's untimely death. However, it should be stated for the record that the organ was in very rough shape and would have required numerous pipes to be replaced and everything else overhauled down to the last screw. Unfortunately, Steve passed away before that could happen and the instrument was sold and later broken up for parts.
Steve Levin was a good acquaintance of mine who wanted to see this instrument re-installed in a venue that would welcome it. I am personally familiar with this instrument.
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We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager This system was utilized from 1910-1925 in Wurlitzer's "deluxe" instruments whatever that happened to be in a given period of their theatre organ production history. Each dowel rotated each way when its corresponding pneumatic pair pushed or pulled it. The pneumatics are connected to a row of dowels. There is a corresponding set of pneumatics on the other side of the machine that returned the swell pedals to "closed" position. The pneumatics shown operated the swell pedal linkages that caused the console's swell pedals to depress when the organist manipulated the swell indicator "bobbers" manually thereby allowing the organist to control the organ's swell pedals by hand. As an example, it shows the rear of the Wurlitzer/Hope Jones "Balanced Swell" system machine at lower left. The photo to the left is of the rear of the four-manual console that controlled the Wurlitzer organ in the Denver Municipal Auditorium. Our digital samples are from a late 1920s organ that used higher wind pressures than the typical theatre organ and was known as one of Morton's "jazzier" instruments.Updated through online information from Eric Schmiedeberg.
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Morton theatre organs "evolved" over the course of the silent movie era. Bartons were known for their "aggressive" voicing style. Their most famous instrument was the theatre organ installed in the Chicago Stadium. "The Mighty Wurlitzer" was perhaps the "gold standard" of theatre organs during the silent movie era.īarton was mainly known in the Midwest area in the United States. Its versatility enables the American Classic to authentically perform a broad range of musical styles.
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