I suppose this is trivia, but the L.A. Historic Theatre Foundation should fact-check details more carefully. The UA’s Wurlitzer organ had three manuals, not four. The only four-manual Wurlitzer installed in an L.A.-area theater was at the downtown Paramount.
The UA organ was sold to organist Buddy Cole, who made some additions (nine ranks of pipes from his former studio organ — a Robert-Morton) and installed it in a custom-built recording studio. He made two records for Warner Bros. before his death. After going to a pizza restaurant in Northern California, the organ ended up, much-modified, in a museum in the UK.
I suppose this is trivia, but the L.A. Historic Theatre Foundation should fact-check details more carefully. The UA’s Wurlitzer organ had three manuals, not four. The only four-manual Wurlitzer installed in an L.A.-area theater was at the downtown Paramount.
The UA organ was sold to organist Buddy Cole, who made some additions (nine ranks of pipes from his former studio organ — a Robert-Morton) and installed it in a custom-built recording studio. He made two records for Warner Bros. before his death. After going to a pizza restaurant in Northern California, the organ ended up, much-modified, in a museum in the UK.