Silent Films Night at the Venango Museum in Oil City features the same Wurlitzer organ used at the old Latonia Theater in the ...

S TAUNTON — Robert Lent grew up accompanying his father to service the 1924 Wurlitzer organ that sits on the second floor above the lobby of Hotel 24 South on Market Street in Staunton.

The Oriental Theatre's newly-restored 1925 Wurlitzer Pipe Organ. When the Oriental Theatre reopened its doors in 2018, the movie palace was nearly just as it was a century ago, when such opulent ...

THIS THEATRE opening must be the bee’s knees if they’re making Seattle’s mayor, Bertha Knight Landes, pay 50 cents to get in, just like everyone else. Newspaper photographers are asking her to pose ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The nearly $400,000 renovation of Shea's Mighty Wurlitzer is well underway and should be complete for the center's 100th anniversary in 2026. On Wednesday, Shea's Buffalo Theater ...

The Zeiterion Performing Arts Center, special to The Herald News NEW BEDFORD — Technology comes and goes, but some things are irreplaceable. A century after it was first installed, the historic ...

The “Mighty Wurlitzer” organ at the Castro Theatre is not actually a Wurlitzer organ. It hasn’t been one since 2015, when the theater’s genuine Rudolph Wurlitzer Company organ was deemed too ...

Off-Ramp goes to El Segundo's Old Town Music Hall to talk with Bill Field. He bought a Wurlitzer in the 60s and has been playing it ever since. For more than forty years now, the Old Town Music Hall ...

Of that amount, $300,000 will go directly to repairs, while $200,000 will serve as a long-term maintenance fund.

Traditionally complete sound tracks, including all the effects, would have been played on the Wurlitzer to accompany silent films and provide entertainment before shows or during intermissions.

When composer Nathan Barr found the instrument he had been looking for, he built a studio for it. Barr (“True Blood,” “The Americans”) collects unusual musical devices, especially mechanical ones from ...

In Rome last week, Holy Year pilgrims visiting St. Peter’s were startled to hear organ music grumbling up through gratings in the marble floor. One awed pilgrim exclaimed: “It comes right from the ...