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Interior of Loews Jersey City
Theatre
The organ grills are the structures
seen left and right of the stage.
When the organ is playing, sound
from the hundreds of pipes comes
out of the chamber openings.
The left chamber is called the
main, the right chamber called
the solo.
The stage is 80 feet wide, so
you can imagine how large the
organ chambers are.
There are large chandeliers in
front of the organ grills.
Here
the organ chamber is shown in
the center of the picture.
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Inside
the Solo Chamber
There is currently lots of space
in the chamber, but it will quickly
fill up as pipes and other organ
parts are moved in. Because of
the limitations of the camera
only about half of the chamber
is shown in this picture.
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What
are Shades ?
Shades are the vertical wooden
"doors" in this picture.
They open and close to let the
sound out or keep it in. There
are two sets per chamber at Loews.
Many theatre organs only have
one set per chamber.
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Shady characters working on
shade motors.
New leather is being glued on
to the shade motor's wood parts
in the organ workroom.
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Shade motor being moved into
the Solo Chamber.
This is the same motor shown to
the left. It can be seen mounted
on the shades in the pictures
above. The motor pneumatically
moves the shades.
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