Is this organ still being used or did they dismantle it. Best sounding analog theater organ  

Would love to know more about this c. 1960 instrument.

I am wondering if this is really the organ in Don Leslie's home that he and Dick Peterson worked on together? (Which would make this recording long after 1960).

it amazes me how close perterson got all this to sound original. The Tibia is amazing...and it's electronic. Allen could learn something by listening to this

oh my goodness that is hysterical the famous triangle experiment...ladder and all, Way to Go George!

Years ago, I acquire three 10inch paper thin radio transcriptions marked WAAT. I learned this was the radio station emanating from the historic Loews Jersey Theatre (where my daughter Heather was married). If you go downstairs there today you can see the now empty large radio studio room, and the big window where the control room was . This transcription for a shoe company seems to date from 1933 and features Erno Rapee's Orchestra and a singer named Irene Collins.

WAAT Dub  Who Walks In

4/21 Wurlitzer, NY Paramount Studio

Forgotten Melody (signature tune)
Hearts Are Never Blue in Blue Kalua
Change Partners and Dance
Love Doesn't Grow on Trees
Bambina
No Wonder I'm in Love
Summer Souvenirs
Forgotten Melody (reprise)

Jesse Crawford, organ  --  NBC Radio Broadcast, September 13, 1938

4/26 Wurlitzer, former Paramount Theatre, Brooklyn, NY

Billy Nalle --  Live in Concert, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, July 1970, Part 2

Jesse Crawford, organ:  Lonely Hour

Ann Leaf Broadcast, 1934 - CBS Radio, NY Paramount Studio

Quentin Maclean, organ; J. Frank Willis, announcing.

Recorded at the First Church of Christ Scientist, Toronto.  Casavant organ.  

End of the fugue is incomplete.

1957 broadcast, CBC radio.

Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue - J. S. Bach (Quentin Maclean, organist)

4/21 Wurlitzer organ, Trocadero Cinema, Elephant and Castle, London, England.  Columbia DB 909, recorded August 18, 1932.  Audio restoration by Alan Bunting.

Anchor's Weighed
Three Fishers Went Sailing
The Storm (Hullah)
Asleep in the Deep
Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep
Fingal's Cave (Mendelssohn)
The Flying Dutchman (Wagner)
Eternal Father
The Storm, Finale


A Storm Fantasia - Quentin Maclean, organ

No date or details on this recording.  Very likely from about 1960.

Peterson experimental organ

George Wright Demonstrates the Peterson Experimental Organ

Quentin Maclean plays the 3/13 Legge organ at CBC Studios, J. Frank Willis reads poetry.  No date.

This program was broadcast over Trans-Canada Network on Tuesday evenings at 11:30 PM.

Quentin Maclean, organ; J. Frank Willis, reader:  "Nocturne" Broadcast, CBC Radio, Organ and Poetry

The Troubadours (Nat Shilkret)
New York, 22 December 1927

I like the beat of this tune, typical as the Shilkret's arrangements !!

SHILKRET BANDS (Filtrés) 040619

THE WHIP (22.12.1927)

Nick Renkosik playing George Gershwin's "Love is Here to Stay" on John Cornue's 2/16 Barton/Hybrid theatre organ.

George Wright Demonstrates the Peterson Experimental Organ

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