The current Style 285 4/36 Wurlitzer is the third organ to be installed in the Regent Theatre Melbourne. Stop layout of the Moorabbib 4/24 Wurlitzer. Stop layout of the Moorabbin 4/24 Wurlitzer.
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The Krumet rank (mentioned above), along with a new Oboe Horn (which replaces the one swapped to the Plaza Theatre organ), and a Solo String Celeste rank, have been installed in the organ, making it a 4/24 - a proposal is to install a Tibia rank in the Main Chamber, to augment the Tibia rank in the Solo chamber.Ĭomplete stop list of the Moorabbin 4/24 Wurlitzer as currently installed in the Kingston City Hall. Tonal finishing of the flues was carried over the Christmas/New Year 2005/2006 period, and is now awaiting the tonal finishing of the reeds. It was presented to the public at the Easter 2005 Convention. The organ was completely refurbished by members of the society, in 2004/2005, with the electro-pneumatic relay and switch stack being removed and replaced by a solid state equivalent. When originally installed, this organ had two consoles, but on removal of the organ from the State Theatre, the second console was sold to private interests, and eventually found its way via Mike Pfitzner's organ in Darwin, to Adelaide, where it became the console of TOSA South Australia's Capri Theatre Organ. The piano is electrically actuated from the organ console however the mechanism to make the hammers strike the strings is vacuum operated, the vacuum being supplied by an on-board vacuum pump. Unusual for Wurlitzer, but common to the Style 270 (Except apparently the Trocadero, Elephant and Castle organ), was the installation of a Grand Piano, which normally is situated on stage with the organ console. The Krumet rank remained until the 1970s, when it was replaced by a Post Horn, which had been purchased with money raised by a benefit concert. In the 1930s, the Oboe Horn from this organ was swapped with a rank of Krumet pipes from the Plaza Theatre Melbourne Style F, Opus 1730, Wurlitzer (This organ is now in Adelaide at Pulteney Grammar School (1969)). The pipe chambers (Main, Solo and Percussion) are situated high up at the rear of the stage, but the sound from them has become a little restricted of late, by the installation of curtain valences hanging from the ceiling. The Moorabbin organ was removed from the State Theatre in 1963, and subsequently installed in the Moorabbin Town Hall by members of this division of TOSA, for the then Moorabbin City Council (now Kingston City Council), which still owns the organ. the Australian organs where somewhat different to the Trocadero organ, (although they are all recorded as Style 270), by having a piano, a 32' diaphone (State Melbourne and State Sydney only), and an Oboe Horn (instead of the Troc's English/Post Horn) installed, amongst other minor differences. The others were the first organ to be installed in the Regent Theatre Melbourne (Style 270 4/21 Opus 2009), the State Theatre Sydney (Style 270 4/21, Opus 2005), and the Trocadero Theatre, Elephant and Castle, London (Style 270 4/21, Opus 2139). This organ is one of only four having the Style 270 classification. The Style 270 4/21 Wurlitzer currently installed in the Kingston City Hall, was originally installed in the State Theatre Melbourne in 1929. Geelong College, Geelong - 2/10 Wurlitzer Wesley at Warragul, Wesley Centre Warragul - 3/10 Wurlitzer Regent Theatre, Collins St., Melbourne - 4/36 Wurlitzer Kingston City Hall, Cnr South Rd and Nepean Highway, Moorabbin - 4/24 Wurlitzer They can be found at the following locations: Apart from the three Theatre Organs owned by the Victorian Division of TOSA, a futher four organs are installed in, and close to Melbourne.
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