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Huh? How so??

Welcome to the world of Theatre Organ.

It's a 10" tibia but the toes are opened pretty far. Clark Wilson, Brant Duddy and Kenny Crome all have had a part in the tonal finishing over the past 25ish years.

Relatively small but a big sound. The voicing is great 👍🏻 and the acoustics are so live and yet balanced. This Wurlitzer sounds equally as good with the trems off as it does with trems on. I think all of the current leading organists will want to come to Iowa to play this gem. The Cedar Rapids Paramount Mighty Wurlitzer!! With this recording of Mark Herman to kick it off there will be recordings, concerts and shows featuring this organ. I want to hear more of it... and Mark Herman too. I live in Fairfield, Iowa and will have to take a drive up to Cedar Rapids soon.

Define the Blackpool style? I find it is far too often stereotyped, when in reality, when you listen to it over the years since its inception, and the various organists, other than having a defined rhythm, it's very much an open book.

@@OrganMusicYT I am far from being an expert in this field and have only really this year realised that Blackpool style was even a 'thing' and certainly don't mean to sound derogatory in any way. As a child I was fascinated by Reginald Dixon but never got to hear him live, despite only living 30mls away. Finding American organists on here quite by accident during this pandemic has rekindled my enthusiasm. I'm not sure I can 'define' the style any better than your own reference to the rhythmic element which, as I eluded to, I need to be in the right mood for. I do still enjoy watching / listening to the likes of Phil Kelsall, particularly when in concert, and enjoy his showmanship, but we all have our preferences and I favour a more relaxed style.

@@eddieharkin2550 I certainly didn't take your statement as derogatory at all. I never got to hear Reg in person, much too young. However, I never, until the past 10 years or so, realised that there was such a wide variety of organists who played in the Blackpool style and I'm always hearing bit's I've never heard before. The more I've listened the more I've come to realise that, other than that rhythm, there are so many ways of doing it, and not necessarily what would stereotypically come to mind. I find it quite fascinating, how one style can be approached in so many different ways depending upon the artist, the music, the venue and the instrument. Marks playing is always great, I appreciate his playing style, and his approach to the music which is always befitting of the instrument he is playing upon, and of the music he is playing, which often includes forgotten little numbers you would never hear otherwise.

@@OrganMusicYT That's a fascinating observation, I need to make more time for listening. I've been a classical organist for most of my life and spend a lot of time listening to that. As I comment somewhere else, I wish I had made the effort to learn theatre organ properly years ago - old dogs & new tricks etc. Still, there's plenty of enjoyment to be had here. I'm looking in to Hauptwerk to replace my ageing 2 manual at home and it occurs to me they also have, I believe, some theatre organs. I can see me ending up buy a theatre console the way things are going 😉

​@@eddieharkin2550 Having that classical background gives you a great foundation on which to build your theatre organ playing though. Many of the greats, Dixon, Finch, Maclean, Foort, even Phil Kelsall etc all had a classical organ background. Most of them never set out to be theatre organists, of course, it just happened, they had a skill and needed the work. Hauptwerk is fantastic, I've recently been toying around with the Albee Wurlitzer and it's absolutely brilliant! I'm sure you'll enjoy it, as getting access to the real deal, as lucky as we are to have almost 100 of them in the UK, isn't always easy.

Vierne on a small 12-rank Wurlitzer? Hmm! It might just work, after a fashion... some of his more bizarre pieces like the Scherzi from the Symphonies and things like Feux Follets, Gargouilles et Chimères etc could perhaps use some of the theatre organ's quirkier colours...