Re: The Mighty Wurlitzer At Organ Stop Pizza

[miaflaguy]

I always love the twirl move she does to get off the bench at the end.

[plandelle]

It's Colonel Bogey's March

[CJLiveReborn]

Great Music

Great Pizza:)

[sparkyonline1]

would love to get the music for this piece anyone have it or know what its called

[almostacowboy77]

It's all of the Armed Forces themes.

[MR87IROCZ]

sounds like scarface in the beginning

[Spectraman3849]

I would love to play this Wurlitzer. Its much larger than the one i am used to. The 3 manual 15 rank Wurlitzer in the organ club I go to and the 3 manual 14 rank Wurlitzer in the Tower Ballroom Blackpool. Exelent playing.

[stuartylad]

Great to see and hear these Wurlitzers being appreciated. The church where I used to be organist in Hartlepool, England has a four manual Robert Hope Jones (who went on to found Wurlitzer after moving to the US) complete with detached console and west end organ. Sadly it is completely beyond repair now. Very sad indeed. Great stuff though. Thanks for posting.

[Marshall7302]

this is proof that there is NOTHING beyond repair. I was lucky to be a guest at the Maloof residence in Las Vegas, he has in his possession 2 Kimballs 1 Wurlitzer and 2 bartons one of the bartons was originally in the Chicago Stadium, a 6 manual Grand Barton. That was saved, from demolition. The place that the organ was stored in burnd to the ground distryoing all the pipes except the console. Maloof restoerd the console and its now attached and working with the 3 manual barton

[JonasClark]

To clarify: this is the world's SECOND-largest Wurlitzer, behind Jasper Sanfilippo's home instrument. 76 versus 80 ranks. That may change as Organ Stop completes additions.

[itswagon]

It may be the current 2nd largest currently in existence but the Wurlitzer factory in DeKalb, Illinois featured a beautiful 100 rank Wurlitzer at one time. I don't know what happened to the instrument.

[JonasClark]

The five-manual, 100-rank show organ built and installed in the factory in, I believe, the 1960s lasted less than a decade before being broken up for parts. Quite sad. Had a lovely and unusual console, white with gold detailing, and a nifty bench consisting of a gold-fringed red round swivel seat atop an ornate arched wood support.

[itswagon]

Thank you Mr. Clark. I appreciate the information on the Mightiest Wurlitzer.

[averynator]

mighty indeed.......

[FourFootFagott]

Great playing! I love it when artists pay a tribute to our great American troups. I like it when the organ goes down into the floor at the end. Who ever thought of that?

[playa2]

yes someday. when they restore that whole thing it will be one of the greatest days in organ history! unfortunately that day wont come for a while i bet. it really makes no sense at all to me how they could let the greatest musical instrument in the world go to waste like that.

[acchos]

Its should be too far away, the kimball restoration is fully funded and ashould be underway. The midmer losh restoration of the right stage chamber (best condition, 10,000 pipes) has started. The 64ft rank now works perfectly. Best news about the organ in 10 years.

[wurlizer01]

reminds me of the days at Roaring 20's in Grand Rapids Michigan and Paramount Music Palace in Indianapolis.

JeffD

[acchos]

the midmer losh is a superb organ, but even thought its loud (around 120db-130db at max) its not extrememly loud when you are in the building, it loud enough to fill the hall and it doesnt "overcrowed" it with sound. Restoration has started, when it will finish is the question.

[m4dan]

Quick question-I've known that they measure pressure in inches on organs, but how do they go from a unit of force to a unit of length?

[m4dan]

I mean how do they measure it in inches? What do inches of pressure mean? Is it PSI (pressure per square inch)?

[lrover03]

It's inches of mercury in a graduated tube. Used for pressure and vacuum. Also what barometric pressure is measured in.

[Fozzymaple]

usually they are measuring wind pressure at the pipes in inches of water column, the measurement is technically measuring the movement of the column of water, but very few people actually measure using water now days, they tend to use a more reliable (and less dangerous for the organ) mechanical guage.

[JonasClark]

I can't remember specifics, but Atlantic City and Wanamaker vie for position - one has more pipes but less ranks/stops, the other vice-versa. Atlantic City has the 64' diaphone, but the Sydney Town Hall organ has a 64' reed (Contra Trombone) I highly doubt the claim of a 100' Ophecleide stop, but the Atlantic City organ's Grand Ophecleide is indeed on 100" pressure, this could be what was meant. It has been noted as a pure, earsplitting trumpet tone, ten times the volume of a locomotive whistle.

[acchos]

THe grand ophicleide in AC is on 100" as well as the Tuba imperial, tuba magna and another. there are 10 stops on 50" and the rest of teh organ is either on 35",30",25",20", or 15" of wind. The ohicleide has been known to near defend people who are seated near the chambers.

[wurlitzermad]

its huge!!! would love to play it some day

[leeppylee]

the largest organ in the wold is the midmer losh (for the maount of pipes) in atlanta city with the wanamaker in philidelphia following close behing (but the wanamakers bigger if you are talking about the speaking stops)

[bradhorn14]

In speaking stops even, the AC is largest with stops and pipes, in spaking stops, it still has the most. in sub bourdon like the 100 foot ophiclied in pedal chest 2, stage right, its still is #1

[acchos]

the biggest stop in the ac organ is the 64ft Diaphone. The 16ft ophicleide is the loudest stop in the world, its on 100 inches of wind pressure!

[bradhorn14]

there is a 100 foot opheclied and is sub sonar

[acchos]

u mean the 16ft ophicliede which is on 100 inches wind pressure.

The largest pipe in the organ is the 64ft diaphone/dulzian which can also produce the sound of a 128ft stop using the 64ft stop and the 42 2/3ft stop of the same rank.

[weirdtiger]

The midmer losh has 449 ranks while the Wanamaker has 461 and weighs almost twice as much.

Other then that the midmer losh wins in every other area .I wish the midmer losh was fully operational, I would love to hear it in persion some day.

[acchos]

same here, the organ society arent doing enough to get the funds for its restoration. I wonder maybe one day if they will ever enlage it to its original specification, that would bring the pipe count to 48000.

[acchos]

yeah, the atlantic city convention hal1 organ has 33114 pipes and 1235 stops. The wanamakers not too far behind it, having around 5000 pipes less.

[wurlitzermad]

it isnt the largest check out the atlantic city convention hall organ and the wanamaker organ

[Yellowcorrado]

This is the worlds largest pipe organ. It has 6000 (as of June 2006)pipes 78 ranks, 276 keys and 798 stops and controls. Don't believe me? go to the website organstoppizza dot com and click on the "The Mighty Wurlitzer" link. Since I am honored to be employed there, I would encourage you to come viit us when you are in the Phoenix area.