Best of Wurlitzer Organ
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A True Representation of Theatre Organ Music
This is one of the best theatre organ CDs I have ever listened to! "The Best of The Wurlitzer Organ" ranks high up with George Wright's CDs and "Music for Movie Palace Organs."After the advent of "talkies" in the late 20's, many movie palaces had no more use for theatre organs, so many instruments were removed and scrapped. Some of them, fortunately, were saved and moved to ballrooms, auditoriums and skating rinks, where they were able to live a second life.It is this "second life" that is presented on this CD. The music on this CD is representative of what was heard during ballroom dancing, special events, and even in some movie palaces where theatre organs were still installed, being played between movies. Some skating rinks installed theatre organs in them throughout the 50's, providing other venues for this type of music.Today, more than half of all theatre organs originally built have either been scrapped or have been incorporated into...
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Great Theater Organ Music From Merry Old England!
Despite its appearance on a budget label, this CD is a very fine example of the Wurlitzer theater organ doing the thing it does best--at the hands of two experienced and talented masters. (But if you're hoping for a bargain, you'll be disappointed: this discontinued disk is available here only as a collector's item, at prices from $21 to $50.) Though Delta's LaserLight label is coy about such matters, it's most likely this is a fully digital take (DDD) of the two featured instruments and players.Before going further, we should note that this is an English recording--both players and instruments. The first instrument is from the Paramount Cinema in Leeds, acquired by the Thursford Collection in Norfolk in the late 1970s or so. It was then the fourth largest Wurlitzer in Europe, with over 1300 pipes ranging from 1/2 inch up to 16 feet. The second organ, also large, came from the Paramount Cinema in Newcastle to Turner's Musical Merry-Go-Round in Northampton around 1982. Both...
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