I enjoy your videos, and this one in particular as I had no idea that this organ was still around. What a beautiful restoration. The console looks immaculate.
Lovely WurliTzer. When I visited the Brentford Music museum about a hundred years ago it was in an old church building and the 3/12 Wurli was demonstrated using a player system so that`s another one.
That's a different organ. That one came from the Regal, Kingston-Upon-Thames, and it's now in the 'new' Musical Museum building in Brentford and still sounds incredible.
Jesse Crawford certainly had his own distinctive playing style. But while quite a few aficionados consider him to be at the pinnacle of theatre pipe organ players, I've always thought he was rather overrated. Some outstanding subsequent organists have been able to play circles around him, a number of them still performing.
