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The American Theatre Organ Society ( ATOS) is an American non-profit organization, dedicated to preserving and promoting the theatre pipe organ and its musical art form. [1] ATOS consists of regional member-chapters, and is led by democratically elected leaders. There are currently over 75 local chapters of ATOS, and membership is made up of ...
A theatre organ (also known as a theater organ, or, especially in the United Kingdom, a cinema organ) is a type of pipe organ developed to accompany silent films, from the 1900s to the 1920s. Theatre organs have horseshoe-shaped arrangements of stop tabs (tongue-shaped switches) above and around the instrument's keyboards on their consoles.
Moving the business to their North Tonawanda Barrel Organ Factory, from 1914 to 1942, Wurlitzer built over 2,243 pipe organs: 30 times the rate of Hope-Jones company, and more theatre organs than the rest of the theatre organ manufacturers combined. A number were shipped overseas, with the largest export market being the United Kingdom. The ...
In 2011 he was inducted into the American Theatre Organ Society Hall of Fame. [16] In the spring of 2008, [17] and in celebration of his career, the Allen Organ Company developed the Walt Strony Signature Model [18] - the STR-4 - which is a four-manual instrument.
The Theatre Organ Society International ( TOSI) was a nonprofit organization, dedicated to promoting and presenting the theatre organ performance as an internationally recognized art form. [1] The organization existed from 2007 to 2014. The mission of TOSI was to help promote theatre organ performance as a popular entertainment icon, thereby ...
In 1980, his friend Bob Power founded BANDA Records for the purpose of recording Wright, and many of his albums were available from BANDA. In 1995, he was presented with the first Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Theatre Organ Society. He continued to play at concerts and make recordings to the end, and many unreleased tapes have been ...
Len Rawle MBE (4 January 1938 – 14 November 2023) was a Welsh organ builder and organist. [1] A London College of Music graduate, he was particularly noted for his restoration of Wurlitzer theatre organs, such as at Harrow, Tooting and Woking. [2] [3]
Lee Erwin (organist) Lee Orville Erwin (July 15, 1908 – September 21, 2000) was an American theatre organist who played an important part in a revival of interest in the silent film era. His career began as an organist accompanying first-run silent films in the 1920s.