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I loved going to good time Charlie’s in Kentwood every Friday night for dinner

"Gone, but not forgotten."

"There won't be another one, like him?" 🤔

The Ghost of Charlie Balogh

You do better then smartass ........hahahahahahahahahhahahahah.......there is 1/5 second delay between touching the keys and hearing anything!

And he did wonderfully, in every style you can possibly imagine! This is a 'special' he worked up for halloween for the kids to shout to!

Amen!!

starr fisher It is all requests i believe.

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Yes, it is all requests (unless he has only a few, like at less busy times)

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Requests are accepted ☺️

Wind organs will play 1/2 to 1 beat behind from when the key or keys are depressed. Because of the air inertia from when the valve(s) is opened from the air supply to when the air enters the pipe(s) to make the sound. So it is much more difficult to play compared to a Hammond B3 or other electronic organ.

It's been a long time since organ builders inveted a system to overcome this problem Georges 😐

I wish I did not live on the other side of the earth when watching those videos! Visits would have been done a frequent basis :)

RW:thats a very popular music when it gets a request from anyone.😁

The organst's name is Charlie Balogh. He's been playing there since I was a child, and I've enjoyed many hours of his performances while growing up before I moved out of Arizona. (The instrument is housed in Organ Stop Pizza, a restaurant, in Mesa, Arizona)

Hello Shalmendo. Thanks for your reply. wow you had a great childhood if you could watch and hear him many time. i am impressed of his performance and the organs as well. would love to see and experience it in real.

Experiencing it personally is a big difference from looking at it on a video. When the bass diaphones are used you can feel the vibrations going through your chest. While I didn't have a fantastic childhood this is one of the fondest memories I have and I believe that this instrument spurned my entire ongoing interest in vintage music styles and organs of all kinds. I'd love to have a band organ in my house someday. (you should look those up they're pretty sweet). Before I moved out of AZ I went to Organ Stop one last time and kind of nearly cried as the Organ was played, considering how I'd probably not see it functional again, as, by the time I returned to AZ on a trip or something, it might be closed down. It's one of the few things I'll really miss. At least I stopped Mr. Balogh on his way out from the organ console and told him how much I appreciated his many years of performances. I'd always wanted to talk to him but felt too shy to. (Don't be shy like I was, he's a wonderful man! Stop him and tell him how great he is!)

hello Shalmendo, Thanks for extending reply and share me your story and perspective. i can imagine if you hear the organ there you feel the vibrations in your body. thats great to experience that. And that since than you love organs. what is a band organ? the one who is in Organ Stop Piza? I understand that if this organ make such big impression in your childhood that it made you cry. I miss also some things of the past and that hurts, but i not get it back with that. I wonder how to make my life and future better than the past. Its good you talk with this Mr Balogh. And that you felt shy before. the fear of get rejected or something. I wonder if i can ever see this organ or Mr Balogh in real. I hope so

The instrument at Organ Stop Pizza is called a 'theatre organ'. They were initially introduced during the Great Depression when silent films employed a complete orchestra in an orchestra pit to accompany the films. Theater owners realized that paying a single organist was a massive savings compared to employing a complete orchestra, so they became quite popular. A Band organ on the other hand is much smaller and designed to have simple percussion and some extra instrumentation aside from a couple of pipe ranks (a set of pipes with a single tone palate are called a rank), usually things like accordions or wind instruments. they were commonly employed in dance halls to provide automated music play, many were coin operated. If you want to see this instrument, You need to go Mesa, Arizona where it's housed in a restaurant that serves Italian food and pizza. On another note, the organists do take requests which you can write on a card and drop into a little box he checks before starting each performance. You can find more information on their website at www.organstopppizza.com

Yeah, pretty much does. In addition to the live, sequencing full percussion it's also got...a duck! :D

It's the most complete and full wurlitzer organ. It's a modified 4/42 (the biggest version of wurlitzer organs)