WURLITZER ORGAN BENCH MANUAL
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The console and the chambers are separated by what is called the 'relay' which maps the one into the other, this far-sighted and elegant unification architecture having been invented by Robert Hope-Jones in the 1880s. The pipes, percussions and effects within the chambers of the original instrument can be thought of as a stand-alone core resource of sounds which can be drawn on in any number of different ways by a console having a wide variety of possible stop lists.

WURLITZER ORGAN BENCH FULL

Thus the Tibia, for example, is an 8-octave rank which appears on all divisions at various speaking pitches ranging from 16 foot to 2 foot (see the full specification of the organ at reference

WURLITZER ORGAN BENCH MANUAL

Suffice to say that each pipe can, in theory, be played from any key on any manual of the console, including the second touch contacts. It is assumed that readers are familiar with the concept of the fully unified organ as used in theatre instruments. The ten pipe ranks of the organ are listed in Table 1. Today the piano is a splendid instrument in its own right, a Weber duo-art grand, though it was not part of the original organ installation. Unusually, this enables the percussions (apart from the piano) to occupy their own chamber and be under separate expression.

The Wurlitzer console is pictured in Figure 1 and the organ's innards are distributed across three chambers. The Wurlitzer console at the organ theatre, St Albans, England This is now an extremely rare instrument, and a companion article describing itДЇigure 1. On the same occasion I sampled the Rutt theatre pipe organ also in the care of the St Albans theatre. , and this forms the subject of this article. So I was grateful to the Trustees for permission to digitally sample the Wurlitzer with the intention of developing a sample set for use in the Prog Organ virtual pipe organ These interests included his positions as CEO both of the Livingston Organ brand of electronic instruments and the Organ Supplies and Services company. Around that time I had for many years been well acquainted with the late Bill Walker, who formerly chaired the board of Trustees of the theatre among his other interests and activities until his untimely death in 2003. , restored and then brought into use by a team led by Fred Jennings. The cinema closed in 1968 and it was therefore fortunate that in the following year the organ was acquired by the St Albans organ museum and theatre In 1933 a three manual ten rank Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ (style 220SP opus 2183) was installed in the Empire (later the Granada) cinema at Edmonton, north of London (click on the headings below to access the desired section) A digital simulation of the St Albans WurliTzer organДЄ digital simulation of the 1933 WurliTzer organ at the St Albans organ museum

Wurlitzer organ bench