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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 ...
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 ...
The Grand Page Organ, Paramount Theatre (Anderson, Indiana) The Page Organ Company was an American manufacturer of theater pipe organs, located in Lima, Ohio. [1] The Page Company started very small, with a home-built organ in 1922. However, the company experienced much growth over the following decade, with a steady demand for theatre organs. [2]
Moving the business to their North Tonawanda Barrel Organ Factory, from 1914 to 1942, Wurlitzer built over 2,243 pipe organs: 30 times the rate of Hope-Jones company, and more theatre organs than the rest of the theatre organ manufacturers combined. A number were shipped overseas, with the largest export market being the United Kingdom. The ...
The Marr & Colton Company was a producer of theater pipe organs, located in Warsaw, New York.The firm was founded in 1915 by David Jackson Marr and John J. Colton. [1] The company built between 500 and 600 organs for theatres, churches, auditoriums, radio stations, and homes.
The Barton theatre pipe organ, catalogued as Opus 245, was built for the Michigan Theater and installed in November 1927, shortly before the theater was opened on January 5, 1928. [5] Of some 7,000 theatre organs collectively built by many companies between the mid-1910s and the early 1930s, the Michigan Barton is one of only about 45 remaining ...
The Geneva Organ Company was an American manufacturer of pipe organs. [1]During the age of silent films, the company was a small but notable maker of theatre organs.It produced organs under various names, including Geneva Organs, Smith Unit Organs, and Smith-Geneva Organs.
The Wurlitzer company built the theater organ in 1927 as their Opus 1571. It is one of the largest theater pipe organs in the world, [2] currently having about 80 ranks and approximately 5000 pipes. [3] It was originally built for the Riviera Theatre in Omaha, Nebraska. It has been restored and expanded under David Junchen, after the museum ...