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Monday, January 7, 2013

Strike Up The Band - Joe's 2/9 Wurlitzer

Strike Up The Band - Joe's 2/9 Wurlitzer Video Clips. Duration : 3.45 Mins.


This unique small Wurlitzer pipe organ is in a basement of Ohio Valley Chapter's President, Joe Hollmann. The Wurlitzer RJ 4 Residence Pipe Organ, Opus 1985, was built in 1928 and shipped to the Wurlitzer store in Cincinnati Ohio. RJ signifies a Residence organ with a junior 105 note player unit. Residence Wurlitzers were small scale and were sutable and affordable for home owners that desired to have a pipe organ included in the furnishings of their home. Opus 1985 consisted of 4 ranks of small scale pipework all on 6 wp. The ranks were: Flute, Oboe Horn, Salicional and Open Diapason. The balance of the organ consisted of one regulator, one trem, one relay and switch stack, one swell shoe, one swell shade blade and blower. There were no percussions of any kind. Opus 1985 was sold to The Gilligan Funeral Home and installed in 1930 for the purpose of providing sutible reflection music for services. In 1952, the funeral home donated the organ to All Saints Church in Cincinnati, where it was installed by a local organ man. During this installation, the player unit was sawed off the top of the console and discarded, leaving the console badly mutilated. After 29 years of church service and no improvements of any kind, All Saints sold the organ to Ohio Valley Chapter member Herb Merritt. Herb removed the organ for its first residence installation in his home. During the ensuing years at the Merritt Residence, many improvements and additions were undertaken. As previously stated ...

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