To: Nan48
Don't know about that. I heard of one about 30 years ago. A guy bought the theater organ from a grand movie palace being torn down and installed it in his house... the neighbors called it "the beast in the basement." I heard it got destroyed in a flood.
Scotty's Castle in Death Valley has a very nice player theater organ...
116 posted on
09/21/2003 10:55:29 PM PDT by
Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker
Hmm. Interesting.
I know a guy who has an organ in his barn, and just yesterday, our AGO group visited a guy who has 5 antique organs in a room he built on to his house. He doesn't play a one of them. So, we played them for him--all at once! 'Twas a pretty cool sound.
120 posted on
09/21/2003 11:02:55 PM PDT by
Nan48
To: Swordmaker
Thanks for the pic, BTW, of the Atlantic City behemoth.
I had some recordings of a six-manual theatre Wurlitzer organ in Salt Lake City from the 60s, played by a Gus.....something or other. They were magnificent, and I let them get away from me by my mother selling stuff in a garage sale.
There's nothing like the King of Instruments!
121 posted on
09/21/2003 11:08:16 PM PDT by
sinkspur
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