None of the churches near to me use organs for worship. I suppose the main thing is that the church was actually using an organ. It was very good of you to go all that way and not charge.
No disrespect to anyone's taste but it is everything I personally hate about some organs. Go figure.I watched a few clips last night on one of those Wurlitzers and I wasn't impressed at all. The sound of it was terrible - internal speakers! I offered to add some amps and couple of speakers, but they said they were happy with it. They insisted that I come back to install it! Since our summer camp is not far from there, I agreed, and only charged for a tank of gas - I felt bad. I live about 180 miles from there told them I'd mail it to them. If I recall it was a weird type that I had to find online. Turned out the swell pedal stopped working because the bulb was burned out. They treasured it, because a member had donated it. I was asked to fix one of those Viscount/"Wurlitzers" once. I think it was their first attempt to get the theatre stoplist right. You'll have to spend quite a bit more than an MDS Theatre III to get more tonal resources-I think of it as a "sweet spot" in their line. You have to go to the MDS 317 to match its resources and they go for more money. Don't shy away from the MDS models-my "best buy" of that series is the MDS Theatre III as it has a lot of tonal resources: tibia, diapason, flute, violin, violin celeste, solo strings, post horn, trumpet, tuba horn (harmonic tuba), clarinet, orchestral oboe, vox humana, and brass saxophone, and tuned percussions of chimes, chrysoglott, glockenspiel, and xylophone. The last Wurlitzer pipe organ sold was 1943, but they did assemble a 5 manual "magnum opus" for the DeKalb IL facility in the 1970's form several organs they acquired-it had 69 ranks and a 5-manual console.įor overall reliability and getting an organ where you won't be struggling to try to get service, an Allen is definitely the way to go. Baldwin then spun off their organ division to Church Organ Systems (COS) which sold Baldwin and Wurlitzer organs, mostly private labelled organs manufactured by Viscount. Wurlitzer made electronic organs up through the end of the 1970's and into the 1980's-when they dropped out of the business, the Wurlitzer name was sold to Baldwin.
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