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Console of the 3/13 Barton Theatre Pipe Organ at Ann Arbor's Michigan Theatre. A theatre organ (also known as a theater organ, or, especially in the United Kingdom, a cinema organ) is a type of pipe organ developed to accompany silent films from the 1900s to the 1920s. Console of the Rhinestone Barton theatre organ, installed in Theatre Cedar ...
Nicholson & Co. Ltd manufactures pipe organs. It was founded in 1841 by John Nicholson. It was founded in 1841 by John Nicholson. Its work encompasses the creation of new instruments as well as historical restorations, rebuilds and renovations.
In 1843, William Allen Johnson operated a contracting business in Westfield, Massachusetts. While he was completing the construction of a new church building for his own Westfield church, an organ builder of the firm E. and G. G. Hook & Hastings arrived with wagon loads of parts, pipes and materials which were to be installed in the new church.
A massive pipe organ that underscored the drama and comedy of silent movies with live music in Detroit's ornate Hollywood Theatre nearly a century ago was dismantled into thousands of pieces and ...
Restoration work on the organ is a little over two-thirds complete, according to Smith. “The theater is designed to accommodate exactly this organ,” Munson says, adding that the architect, Michael Maltzan, "designed the pipe chambers to have the same dimension as in the Hollywood Theatre.
In the 1890s the company—which used the slogan,"Everything in music"—began building pipe organs. In 1894 Robert J. Bennett came to Lyon & Healy from the Hutchings company of Boston to head their organ department. The largest surviving Lyon & Healy pipe organ is at the Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica in Chicago. It is a large organ of four ...
In an era of digital simulation, when even a singer's voice can sound synthesized, an Austin organ is a beautiful anomaly: behemoths made of wood, glue, and wind, constructed using machines that ...
The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called wind) through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard.Because each pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks, each of which has a common timbre, volume, and construction throughout the keyboard compass.
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