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Tony & The Monster of the Organ
How many more ? Tony removes old pneumatics
from this large 7-rank Wurlitzer chest.
It is the largest chest in the brook chambers.
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Working with animals and plants
Carole and Coralie glue new leather on
wooden pneumatics with hot glue. These
pneumatics are from the 7-rank chest.
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Hot Stuff & Wired !
Cal solders new wires and connectors on
this bottom board.
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Help !!! I'm surrounded by organ parts
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George getting ready to make an organ
related cell phone call.
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Working best while laying down on the
job.
Joe finds the best way to avoid a sore
back is to use a lawn chair under the
7-rank chest (pictured releathered and
up in the left chamber) to prepare pneumatics
for installation of toe boards.
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Another moving vision
Everyone and everything is on edge
as this 3-rank chest is carefully moved
through the doorway.
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Streaming Strings to Traveling Trailers
Pipe trays full of strings stream
onto the trailer for the trip to NJ.
A friendly kinura hitches a ride too.
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Hello Gorgeous !
This Style 235 console was part of
a 3/13 Wurlitzer Opus 1349 that was
installed in Loew's State Theatre (205
Massachusetts Ave., near Boston Symphony
Hall) in Boston, Massachusetts May 28,
1926
This 4000 seat Thomas W. Lamb theatre
was closed August 1959 and was demolished
in 1968.
Fortunately the whole organ was saved
by The Eastern Massachusetts Chapter
of the American Theatre Organ Society
(EMCATOS)
and installed in Knight Auditorium at
Babson College, Wellesley, MA (Pictures
of this organ in Loew's State Theatre
and Knight Auditorium) The console
remained playing in Knight Auditorium
until around 1996 at which time it was
replaced with a new 4 manual console.
The console then lived with a private
owner until GSTOS purchased and moved
it to NJ in the fall of 2004.
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Attention ! Kinura - "Rank and
File"
Kinura pipes all lined up in a pipe
tray, while they are being inspected,
cataloged and their condition documented.
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Quack Quack ?
The shallot and reed of this kinura
look something like a talking duck.
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Tiny bees are all the buzz.
Some of the smallest kinuras still fly
like bees with beating reeds before they
turn into flues. |
