Yes hes Utterly Gifted. Bit younger than Virgil Fox though. No probs with stiffening fingers yet. I used to take my now deceased parents to Norfolk on their annual holiday and we ALWAYS went to Thursford. We all loved it. Easier when he came north to The Penistone Paramount or M Ranch in Nottingham. We were regular visitors there. I no longer go now as i was VERY close to my folks and id find it too upsetting. My eyes prick whenever i see Robert on KZfaq

Its like comparing oranges to apples. Virgil Fox wasnt a theater organist. His favorite specialty was playing Bach. For years he was the organist at Riverside Church in New York City, not Radio City Musical Hall.

Amen! I'd never even heard of a Wurlitzer before YT!

Michel Linschoten the dome is our best source of music, after all, it doesn't stop at the last page. It can just keep coming, until exhaustion and unconsciousness of course.

Robert and this Wurlitzer have become one, hes the sound it makes and its the sound he makes. It's magic when someone knows an instrument to this level.

Yes, you can still catch him in concert twice a day at the Thursford collection and at various venues around the UK.

I think the world has ever produced would not be an unfair assumption

And the most amazing thing is that he can't read music manuscript at all - truly fantastic.

FreeAnalyst Hi 👋

Yes I am at home waiting to see you play at your. Concert, Joan.

Charles Jenkins more like the one of the worlds

Craig Smit

Yes

Craig Smith Hi Craig it was inspiring to read your post. I'm a similar age group to you. I was taken to Southampton Guildhall to hear Phil Kelsall and was affected in the same way. I found it very hard to get help to play. So Robert Wolf has inspired me like Phil, but also to go down the self taught road. I think it's great that you have played so many instruments. Have you ever posted yourself playing on KZfaq or SoundCloud? I hope you enjoy many more happy hours of playing and listening to the king of instrument. Best wishes Pete

Wonderful

Hello, I lov your music very much much, thank you, Hello

Keith Simpson yessir, it's on the ol' bucket list.

I think it all comes down to maintenance cost, and demand from the new generation.

Many thanks

Gene Kinnick qq

Just one brain with 10 connected fingers not only the right touch but second touch as well all at what must be UK's finest organ proving organs can be installed elsewhere from.the original home Gordon Exmouth

Up and up and away we go! Love it!

hello the best.

The Happy Wanderer j

Most importantly, Robert Wolfe and the recording engineers! Pleased you enjoyed it, hope you'll come back for more :)

the organist is very good. His attention. To the keys and feet are tremendous.. thank you.

woo

Lessons and lots of practice is the best method. If you can play two manuals, you can play 20. The more you have, the easier it becomes as you have somewhere to go for different sounds.

@@OrganMusicYT Well, you see the trouble is (and you weren'i to know this is that no amount of pracctice would help much now, because some years ago I went down with multiple sclerosis - and even my very limited skill on the manuals has gone away for good now. You were not to know.

@@john3775 I'm very sorry to hear that. It must be very frustrating. That said, I've had plenty of practice and I'm still no good haha

@@OrganMusicYT like I say mate YOU WEREN'T TO KNOW, so don't feel bad about it , eh. OK (it is bloody frustrating- like you I practiced a LOT (about an hour a day back in the early seventies) (I learned to read music (least I can still do that!) and spent ages on fingering , and I guess I wasn't TOO bad on the manuals- but I had all ten fingers giving of their all back then. Multiple Sclerosis happened- I still have ball ten fingers but they just don't give of their all any more. Nowadays I have to play a qwerty keyboard synthesizer on a keyboard fitted with a keygaurd (a sheet of metal over the keys, having one hole per key - and I have to play only monophonically (that's not the instrument at fault, my coordination is only up to one note at a time but at least I can still just about play a melody learned from sheet music- and I still very much enjoy listening to truly great players like Mr Wolfe- so although things could obviously be a bloody sight better, they could also be a bloody sight worse.

TheChrisnab100 n

Count me in, I wanna make these beautiful noises, if it's the last thing I do! So yes they're not going extinct, there's a bunch of young people my age that play. I have yet to make a coherent tune on my virtual theatre organ, but someday I will pump them out on a real instrument. I can feel it in my fingers. I have tunes in my head, I just need to learn how to get them out.

It seems like they are slowly fading away unfortunately. I'm slowly seeing them disappear all over due to the costs of maintenance and restoration and not much popular interest in keeping them running.