Wurlitzer organ models3/17/2024 In the mid 1990s, the Free Trade Hall closed and a new home was found in the ballroom at Stockport Town Hall. In 1975, following the closure of the Odeon, the organ was installed by the Lancastrian Theatre Organ Trust in the Free Trade Hall literally up the road from the Odeon. It was built in 1930 for the beautiful Paramount (later Odeon) Theatre in Manchester city centre and has 4 manuals and 20 ranks of pipes plus a piano attachment. ![]() This, in my opinion, has to be the finest Wurlitzer organ we now have in the United Kingdom. The following are a few instruments I have played (or attempting to!) around the United Kingdom: Therefore I couldnt resist the urge to make a section dedicated to the other major builder of theatre organs in the United Kingdom! ![]() ![]() As well as Compton organs, I am a great enthusiast by of instruments built by the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company of Tonawanda in the United States of America.
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