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Wurlitzer 105 Band Organ (late model, Christmas decorated), Memphis Zoo. Wurlitzer 125 Band Organ (1924), Pullen Park Carousel. The early model 105 would appear identical to this, but without the drums. Wurlitzer 165 Band Organ with model 157 facade, American Treasure Tour. "The Mammoth" Wurlitzer Military Band Organ, 160, American Treasure ...
Franz Rudolph Wurlitzer (1831–1914), an immigrant from Schöneck, Saxony, founded the Wurlitzer Company in Cincinnati in 1853. His sons Howard, Rudolph and Farny successively directed the company after his death. The company initially imported musical instruments from the Wurlitzer family in Germany for resale in the United States.
The music on the carousel is provided by a 1916 Wurlitzer Military Band Organ, Style #153, one of the oldest Wurlitzer #153s in existence. It is a four-abreast carousel, meaning that it has four rows of animals, and it travels in a counter-clockwise direction. Over 1,500 lights decorate the ride.
1925 silent movie classic with live accompaniment by Tony Thomas on the Wurlitzer organ. 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 16. Doors open at 6 p.m. The Orpheum, 203 S. Main. Tickets: suggested $10 donation at ...
Shea's Performing Arts Center (originally Shea's Buffalo) is a theater for touring Broadway musicals and special events in Buffalo, New York. Originally called Shea's Buffalo, it was opened in 1926 to show silent movies. It took one year to build the entire theatre. Shea's boasts one of the few theater organs in the US that is still in ...
A number of Wurlitzer theatre organs were imported and installed in the United Kingdom in the period from 1925 to just before the Second World War (1939–45). The first Wurlitzer theatre organ shipped to the UK was dispatched on 1 December 1924, and shipped in via Southampton Docks. A very small, six-rank instrument, it was installed at the ...
George Wright (August 28, 1920 in Orland, California – May 10, 1998 in Glendale, California) was an American musician, possibly the most famous virtuoso of the theatre organ of the modern era. Wright was best known for his virtuoso performances on the huge Wurlitzer theater pipe organs at the famed Fox Theater on Market Street in San ...
The ride features 38 horses, four rabbits, four ostriches, a lion, a tiger, a giraffe, and a prancing deer. A Wurlitzer style 165 Band Organ provides the carousel's music; it was built in 1925 and replaced a Wurlitzer 153 band organ at the park in 1926. [30] Dentzel Carousel building, Glen Echo Park Dentzel Carousel, Glen Echo Park