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It, along with the organ at the Paramount Theatre in Denver Colorado are the only Wurlitzer installations still in use that have dual consoles. The Music Hall instrument is actually a concert instrument, capable of playing a classical as well as non-classical repertoire. The largest one originally built was the four-keyboard / 58-rank (set of pipes) instrument at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. A number were shipped overseas, with the largest export market being the United Kingdom. Moving the business to their North Tonawanda Barrel Organ Factory, from 1914 to 1942, Wurlitzer built over 2,200 pipe organs: 30 times the rate of Hope-Jones company, and more theatre organs than the rest of the theatre organ manufacturers combined. But shortly after merging his organ business with Wurlitzer in 1914, he committed suicide in Rochester, New York, frustrated by his new association with the Wurlitzer company, it is said. He also used a system of unification, which multiplied considerably the number of stops relative to the number of ranks.īetween 18 his company employed 112 workers at its peak, producing 246 organs.
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Hope-Jones organs were also noted for such innovations as stoptabs instead of drawknobs and very high wind pressures of 10″ – 50″ to imitate orchestral instruments. The Tibia eventually became a staple of theater organs. That the console should be detachable from the organ.Īmong his sound innovations were a kind of electro-pneumatic action, the Diaphone and the modern Tibia Clausa with its strong 8′ flute tone.
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