The Smithsonian's Wurlitzer (its console above, with the Star-Spangled Banner) likely played the national anthem before movies. Eric Long/National Musuem of American History, SI Of all the musical ...

Stationed in Music Hall’s ballroom is an instrument few know about: the Wurlitzer organ—a special type of theater organ manufactured by the renowned Cincinnati-based Wurlitzer Company to accompany ...

Dixon was principal organist at Blackpool Tower for 40 years from 1930 to 1970. Over the years, Kelsall has recorded dozens ...

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 ...

BRECKSVILLE, OH (WOIO) - Harold Wright bought his Brecksville home knowing he wanted it to be a musical space. “When I bought the house, it was with the intention of installing something,” Wright said ...

Reading Rudolph Wurlitzer’s novels is like watching a road movie backward. In his 1969 underground classic, “Nog,” the narrator drifts across an amorphous terrain on which his shifting identity molds ...

For a generation in Indianapolis, the old Paramount Music Palace housed a grand, booming pipe organ that provided a schmaltzy soundtrack to birthday parties, Little League team dinners, grandparent ...

On this edition of Throwback Thursday, Lori Kent with the Local Lou Podcast tells us about the Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ.

The Oriental Theatre's newly-restored 1925 Wurlitzer Pipe Organ. When the Oriental Theatre reopened its doors in 2018, the movie palace was nearly just as it was a century ago, when such opulent ...

GEDDES, N.Y. — Take a trip to the Empire Theatre at the New York State Fairgrounds and you will soon find yourself surrounded by the sounds of a bygone era. "It's a unique sound," Denny Randall, from ...

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The Smithsonian's Wurlitzer (its console above, with the Star-Spangled Banner) likely played the national anthem before movies. Eric Long/National Musuem of American History, SI Of all the musical ...