Sitting in the basement of LIU Brooklyn is the monstrous Wurlitzer 4/26 orchestral organ. Built in 1928, this model is 100% original and only one of two still left in operation, the other sitting in ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Orpheum’s 90-year-old ...
COOS BAY — The second in a series of events scheduled by the Egyptian Theatre Preservation Association to create funding for restoration of the theater's Wurlitzer organ will take place at the ...
THIS THEATRE opening must be the bee’s knees if they’re making Seattle’s mayor, Bertha Knight Landes, pay 50 cents to get in, just like everyone else. Newspaper photographers are asking her to pose ...
RAHWAY — Without this organ, the Union County Performing Arts might not be where it is today. A Wurlitzer pipe organ, built for the Rahway Theatre when it opened in 1928 to play during silent movies, ...
When composer Nathan Barr found the instrument he had been looking for, he built a studio for it. Barr (“True Blood,” “The Americans”) collects unusual musical devices, especially mechanical ones from ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A familiar sound will soon fill the Castro Theatre in San Francisco -- years after the "Mighty Wurlitzer" organ played its last tune. A new organ will take center stage, thanks ...
The story of how Wanda Lucia Pietras Andersen became a model for Wurlitzer has become family lore, is a tale lovingly told over and over again. Andersen was a 24-year-old mother with three young ...