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The Frati & Co. Band Organ at the Lakeside Park Carousel in Port Dalhousie, Ontario, is an example of a band organ converted by Wurlitzer to play the Wurlitzer 150 roll scale. The production of Wurlitzer organs ceased in 1939, the last organ to leave the factory being a style 165 organ in a 157 case (done because Wurlitzer had an extra 157 case ...
List of Wurlitzer band organs. Known band organ models once produced by the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company of North Tonawanda, New York, USA and information regarding currently active models and their locations include: Wurlitzer 105 Band Organ (late model, Christmas decorated), Memphis Zoo. Wurlitzer 125 Band Organ (1924), Pullen Park Carousel.
The Rudolph Wurlitzer company, to whom Robert Hope-Jones licensed his name and patents, was the most well-known manufacturer of theatre organs, and the phrase Mighty Wurlitzer became an almost generic term for the theatre organ. After some major disagreements with the Wurlitzer management, Robert Hope-Jones committed suicide in 1914.
The Senate's "Mighty Wurlitzer" organ is the centerpiece of the theater. The organ, a Wurlitzer 4-manual/34-rank model, was built for the Fisher Theatre in Downtown Detroit in 1928, in its first incarnation as a movie palace. The organ is a custom model, designed for both silent film accompaniment and concerts.
These included the 46-note style 125 roll (used by styles 104, 105, 125, and smaller organs that saw less production), the wider 46-mote 150 roll (used by styles 146, 153, and other less common mid-size styles), or the still wider 75-note 165 roll (used by styles 157, 165, and larger special organ models). Due to Wurlitzer's success and ...
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 ...
Len Rawle. Len Rawle MBE (4 January 1938 – 14 November 2023) was a Welsh organ builder and organist. [1] A London College of Music graduate, he was particularly noted for his restoration of Wurlitzer theatre organs, such as at Harrow, Tooting and Woking. [2][3]
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