Fantastic work. Thank you for sharing this experience with us. It is truly a very touching and awe inspiring piece. The type that brings feelings you never even knew you had. Much appreciated.
I’m remember the film we did at the State Theatre. with John at the Wurlitzer, we got into trouble with the director because we couldn’t stop laughing. Great memories of John at the Wurlitzer, he is a wonderful entertainer.
Glad to know the Compton which was installed on the stage, in the Hall at City School, Sheffield is still extant, I was a pupil at City when it was installed. Nice to know it wasn’t totally destroyed when the School Hall was set on fire ( after my days) by two boys. ( ex pupils if my memory serves me correctly)
This little documentry helped me find out about the Astoria Centre in Barnsley. It's a great place that i've been to in July of 2021 and was also the place that i got to play my first cinema organ! Thank you Damon for making this informative documentry!
Glad to have helped! The first experience of playing one is something amazing isn't it?! Don't forget you can listen every week to our free podcast "The Organist Encores" (Shameless plug!)
@@EBCBroadcasting It sure is! I'll definitely be going back regularly from now on! (Haha, don't worry about it. I've been listening to it for quite a while now)
It was a great pleasure to listen and enjoy the sounds of Declan Poole playing his Yamaha using virtual technology. I met Declan in Eccles a while back and he has obviously become a star on the theatre organ scene. He also seems to have a great deal of knowledge in this kind of technology, and is also an inspiration to the organ world.
He was so excited to be interviewed, great that he's keen on sharing his knowledge and talent with others, he has, indeed, a great future in this area and opportunity to lead!
My grandmother was employed as a principal vocalist at Granada theatre Bedford where the Wurlitzer was installed. She sang alongside it on a regular basis. The resident organist there was a chap named. John Huff. My grandmother and the wurlitzer Organ were featured on the radio program opportunity knocks many Years ago. She had no idea the organ was still in existence and is really happy to know its going to be restored.
I come from Bedford and knew John, As a boy I was taken to the cinema and remmeber the organ rising out of the pit and being played during aftefrnoon performances, more than likely played by John and the white dot going over the words on the screen. I sang in ther choir or St. Marys Cardington the choirmaster a Mr. A Beaumount a rather flamboyant man when the choir was require to walk through the village down to the cemetery for R101 and other memorial services he wolud wear bright red ropes and a mortar board, when Mr. B. went on holiday John would stand in for him. The last time I met John he was playing elect organ in a pub some forty years ago. Dudley Fisher
@@dudleyfisher9336 Hi Dudley thanks for this information. Very Interesting. My grandmother spoke very fondly of John. I believe he also played piano in a Dance band of the day with a band leader named Freddie Marshall. My nan would often be asked to sing with them..
I was astonished to hear that there is, or was a theatre organ just down the road from me in Uckfield but I wondered if somebody could give me the name of the software that Declan spoke about? He just said it too quickly and even after trying to listen over and over I can’t pick it up. Wonderful film.
Good question. The white ribbon you saw is attached to a framework behind the pipes and is generally out of view. It is simply to hold the pipe in place and to help stop the pipe from sagging over time. Pipe metal is typically a combination of lead and tin while some pipes are made of zinc, so the material is relatively soft. Once you get to a moderate length metal organ pipe, it's always susceptible to sagging simply because of its size and the ribbon holds the pipe upright. For longer pipes such as those that go on the front of an organ case, a bent piece of metal is attached to the rear of the pipe and out of sight which engages a metal pin on a framework hidden behind.
3:45 What Kevin Grunill said about peoples interest in the organ being similar to steam really struck me, because it's something I've also often thought about but I don't I've ever heard anybody relate peoples interest to the organ with steam.
