![]() ![]() Thousands of pipes of all shapes and sizes rest there, waiting to be brought to life by the mighty bellows that pump air through them. The organ chambers sit on each side of the theatre, behind the lyre players. Although many other firms in the U.S.A., England and elsewhere began to build these Theatre Organs, none of them caught the public’s imagination so much as the ‘Mighty Wurlitzer’.” From The Musical Museum. ![]() “It was an instrument designed to sound as much like an orchestra as possible, but to be played by a single person – a pre- electronics synthesizer in fact. This wonderful organ has provided beautiful music to us for over 85 years. One of the most notable features of the Egyptian Theatre is the Wurlitzer Hope-Jones Unit Orchestra organ that sits intact and still operable as originally installed in 1925 by the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company for $32,000. ![]()
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