#THE MIGHTY WURLITZER ORGAN MOVIE#

Of the cars heвЂ™s collected, including offerings from Packard, Auburn, Bentley, Cord, Hupmobile, Willys, Graham, and Oakland, the common thread linking each vehicle is the creative spirit that brought the vehicles to the marketplace. Over time, Stahl collected more cars and had them housed in three different buildings in St. Eventually, I wanted to teach my (three) sons about engines and carburetors, so I bought a (Ford) Model A and we tore it apart and put it back together. вЂњI would use one or two hairs on a brush to get the paint just perfect. вЂњI had a few cars growing up, Corvettes mostly, and I loved working on model cars as a kid,вЂќ Stahl recalls.

#THE MIGHTY WURLITZER ORGAN MOVIE#

вЂњTrapвЂќ percussions include a snare drum, cymbals, castanets, and tambourines, as well as silent movie sound effects including, of course, a car horn. Other musical offerings include a marimba, xylophone, glockenspiel, chimes, celesta, vibraphone, piano, and tuned sleigh bells. The dozens of organ keys power piano notes, trumpets, saxophones with brass resonators, violins, violas, flutes, clarinets, tubas, and oboes - 208 tuned percussion notes in total. Although the museum is home to more than 80 cars a reproduction of a Big Boy drive-thru restaurant vintage signs jukeboxes and other marvels, the star of the expanded facility is the Mighty Wurlitzer and its stacked keyboards that control 23 sets of pipes (1,524 pipes in total). ItвЂ™s really a hybrid organ.вЂќДЄ collector of all things mechanical, in 2013 Stahl opened a classic car museum under the nonprofit, Stahls Automotive Foundation, in Chesterfield Township (it evolved from a smaller collection in St. вЂњThereвЂ™s the pipes, the boxes they come in, the instruments, the connectors, and then you have to run air to all of the instruments, as well as power them. вЂњWhat I didnвЂ™t know at the time of the sale was that the organ was made up of 20,000 parts that fit into two semi-loads,вЂќ Stahl says. Two years ago, when the organ came up for sale, it was acquired by Ted Stahl, executive chairman of GroupStahl, an international association of companies in the textile and apparel sectors thatвЂ™s based in St. The instrument eventually made its way to Boca Raton, Fla., where it was installed in the Milhous Museum. Built in 1923, the grand pipe organ eventually was redesigned and enlarged to be a complete concert-grade theater organ, utilizing select pipes from other 1920s-era Wurlitzers. Of the hundreds of organs built for theaters, churches, museums, and private residences, only one is believed to have lacked an invoice.ДЇrom the so-called Mighty Wurlitzer line, the вЂњhouse modelвЂќ was initially designed for WurlitzerвЂ™s own mansion in Cincinnati. The most sought-after and elaborate organs of the day came from the Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., which got its start in Cincinnati in 1853 and relocated to New York in the 1890s. With talking films, radio, and television still on the horizon, grand movie halls were a big hit among the burgeoning middle class. When silent movies proved popular a century ago, theater owners built elaborate entertainment palaces and equipped them with the finest organs of the day.

The mighty wurlitzer organ