The Odeon West End stage organ

[PaulCastle001]

Wrong! It's The Duchess at Odeon Leicester Square, not Odeon West End (formerly the Leicester Square Theatre and, of course, she's a Compton, not a Wurlitzer. And I've played her...

[garyian1970]

This organ also had a Melotone Unit fitted but never attached to the console. Strange! Is it still Donald McKenzie who is the Resident Organist?

Gary

[bmhall100]

The melotone is fitted, its there.

[Silentscreenstar]

Got an idea the Leicester Square Theatre had a smallish Wurlitzer at one time, wouldn`t put money on it tho.

[bmhall100]

One of them did, im not sure which, but the odeon always had the compton.

[caspercat0]

Yes you are both right in part in that the clip is the OLS 5/17 Compton.But the Leicester square theatre(Buchanens theatre) originally had a 2/10 wurlitzer organ now at the Cotton museum in Suffolk.The Empire Leic sq had a 4/20 wurlitzer,the warner had a 3/12 compton-Londons West end was inundated with them.Only a handful left in their original location now.Gaumont kilburn,Apollo hammersmith,Habitat regent street are about it now in the centre.

[dlanodsknib]

Well actually it's the 5 manual 17 Rank Compton organ at the Odeon Leicester Square - as far as I know the West End Odeon (formerly the Leicester Square Theatre) never had a cinema organ. Anyway thanks for posting it;s nice to see the old "Duchess" is still going strong.