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This organ is now located at Rye College in East Sussex. The Trocadero Elephant and Castle Wurlitzer was the largest organ ever shipped to the UK, installed in 1930 for the grand opening of the 3,400-seater cinema. [3] The Blackpool Opera House organ of 1939, designed by Horace Finch, was the last new Wurlitzer to be installed in the UK. The ...
Reginald Herbert Dixon, MBE, ARCM (16 October 1904 – 9 May 1985) was an English theatre organist who was primarily known for his position as organist at the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool, a position he held from March 1930 until March 1970.
In 1929, a Wurlitzer organ was installed in the Tower Ballroom in Blackpool and after three organists, Reginald Dixon was appointed. Dixon later designed his own Wurlitzer and the original Tower organ was removed and enlarged as a 'twin' to the new organ to be installed in the Empress Ballroom, Blackpool within the Winter Gardens complex.
Blackpool Tower is a tourist ... as "Mr. Blackpool". The first Wurlitzer organ was installed in 1929, but it was replaced in 1935 by one designed by Dixon. Ernest ...
It was used there for BBC Symphony Orchestra rehearsals where an organ was required. But in the late 1960s the BBC acquired its third "official" BBC Theatre Organ: a Wurlitzer from the Empress Ballroom Blackpool, enabling Reginald Dixon to continue broadcasting after his retirement from the Tower Ballroom in 1969. [12]
A new Christmas album from the Orpheum and organist Tony Thomas is the first recording of theater's famed Wurlitzer. Orpheum organ puts a new spin on Christmas music, from Mariah Carey to 'Charlie ...
A new stage was also built, with space for a lift provided for the Wurlitzer organ console. The Wurlitzer organ that was installed in the Empress Ballroom in the winter of 1934/35 was originally from the Tower Ballroom. Its specification was enlarged to match the specification of the new organ at the Tower Ballroom.
When Victorian architect Frank Matcham was drawing up the plans for the inside of Blackpool’s Tower Ballroom in the late 18th century, the idea that more than 100 years later the venue would ...