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11 unusual facts about wurlitzer


Broad Ripple Park Carousel

A 1919 Wurlitzer organ model 146B, a type manufactured only for carousels, was also installed.

Cremorne, New South Wales

In an Art Deco style, it features a Wurlitzer pipe-organ that is played at selected film screenings.

Divine Songs

The songs are accompanied by Turiya's signature playing on the Wurlitzer organ.

Homer E. Capehart

Packard developed the Simplex mechanism for automatic record changing, and sold the device to Wurlitzer.

MacInnes Student Ice Arena

The arena's original Wurlitzer organ was used during the Commencement ceremonies, until it was removed during the 2009 renovations.

Old Capitol Theatre

Another stunning feature of the Capitol Theatre was the Wurlitzer Organ that was controlled from inside the orchestra pit and set behind latticed screens on both sides of the proscenium arch.

Organ Stop Pizza

Its primary attraction is as the home of what it claims is the largest Wurlitzer theater organ in the world.

Pedal harp

Wurlitzer made harps for a few decades but ceased by the 1930s.

Sidney Torch

He continued to play the Wurlitzer there up until 1940, when he was drafted into the RAF and stationed near Blackpool.

Southward Car Museum

The building also includes a 474-seat theatre, and features a 1929 Wurtlitzer theatre organ, which was originally installed in the Civic Theatre in Auckland.

Thursford

The collection includes a Mighty Wurlitzer which is the fourth-largest in Europe and has a total of 1,339 pipes.


Arnold Loxam

Dr Loxam was invited back in 1968 to make a final broadcast from what had by then become the Gaumont before the Wurlitzer organ was taken to the North East Theatre Organ's headquarters in Howden-le-Wear, County Durham.

Crescent Park Looff Carousel

An Andreas Ruth und Sohn Style 38 band organ, imported from Waldkirch, Germany, provides music from a Wurlitzer 165 music roll system, which replaced the original German cardboard book music system.

Grant Hayunga

With the exception of Elizabeth DeCicco on vocals, Hayunga used musicians from The Hill Country including Jimbo Mathus (guitar, piano, Wurlitzer organ, mandolin, drums, percussion and vocals), Corey Jenkins (drums), Justin Showah (engineer and bass) of Afrissippi and Chad Smith (Wurlitzer organ).

J. Lawrence Cook

His work has also been transcribed to the Wurlitzer 165 band organ scale by the Play-Rite Music Co. and along with being heard on Artizan and converted band organs, can also be commonly heard on Wurlitzer band organs, such as the Wurlitzer 165 at Glen Echo Park.

Orlando R. Marsh

His best selling Autograph records were those of Jesse Crawford in 1924 playing the Wurlitzer pipe organ in the Chicago Theatre using his then new electrical disc recording system.

The Trouble with Being Myself

Zac Rae – Rhodes piano (tracks 3, 4); Chamberlin (tracks 3, 4, 8–10); Farfisa organ (tracks 5, 8); piano (tracks 5, 10); clavinet, organ (track 7); Wurlitzer (tracks 7, 9); tack piano (track 8); synthesizer (track 10)

Wagonwheel Blues

Kurt Vile - electric and acoustic 12-string guitars, lead jazzmaster, vocals, OB-8, wurlitzer, trumpet, piano

What If It Works?

Anton Barbeau - vocals, Hammond organ, Wurlitzer, farfisa, some drums, acoustic piano, Microkorg, bass guitar, Micromoog, tambourine, shaker, Korg MS-10/Roland Space Echo, Arp Odyssey, acoustic and anti-acoustic piano, Navation X-Station

Wilson Greatbatch

The early work was conducted in a rented area of the former Wurlitzer Organ Factory in North Tonawanda, New York.

Wurlitzer Building

North Tonawanda Barrel Organ Factory, an organ factory turned office complex in North Tonawanda, New York, also known locally as the Wurlitzer Building