#Wurlitzer organ for sale manuals#
These six 49-note ranks could be coupled to any of the other manuals and Pedal. The 35 Solo manual was a "straight" one controlling a six-rank ventil chest. However, the 260 was a true thoroughbred Unit Orchestra featuring unit manual chests throughout, better pitch selection and full note compasses in all of the ranks. The observant reader will note that the rank compliments of the 35 and 260 are identical.
That model became known as the Style 260 which first appeared in 1920. The Style 35 saw a very short period of manufacture-1915 to 1918, but in that time Wurlitzer got the idea that they had a winning combination of voices to work with in developing a bigger and better version of the 35. Until 1915, the Style 6-a 2-3/5 manual 13 rank instrument occupied that position. This is Wurlitzer's second attempt at building a medium-sized Unit Orchestra capable of filling some of the larger Vaudeville theatres that were beginning to crop up in the mid-teens.
Its sale was really an economic necessity given the owner it went to after Steve's untimely death. However, it should be stated for the record that the organ was in very rough shape and would have required numerous pipes to be replaced and everything else overhauled down to the last screw. Unfortunately, Steve passed away before that could happen and the instrument was sold and later broken up for parts. Steve Levin was a good acquaintance of mine who wanted to see this instrument re-installed in a venue that would welcome it. I am personally familiar with this instrument.
#Wurlitzer organ for sale update#
We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager This system was utilized from 1910-1925 in Wurlitzer's "deluxe" instruments whatever that happened to be in a given period of their theatre organ production history. Each dowel rotated each way when its corresponding pneumatic pair pushed or pulled it.
The pneumatics are connected to a row of dowels. There is a corresponding set of pneumatics on the other side of the machine that returned the swell pedals to "closed" position. The pneumatics shown operated the swell pedal linkages that caused the console's swell pedals to depress when the organist manipulated the swell indicator "bobbers" manually thereby allowing the organist to control the organ's swell pedals by hand. As an example, it shows the rear of the Wurlitzer/Hope Jones "Balanced Swell" system machine at lower left. The photo to the left is of the rear of the four-manual console that controlled the Wurlitzer organ in the Denver Municipal Auditorium. Updated through online information from Eric Schmiedeberg.