Be better if it was buried at the bottom of his garden. Wurlitzer fans would pay good money to see that rise from the ground with Steve playing their favourite tunes for an hour or so. That's Steve and not Stephen of course! 🤣
It’s amazing how as soon as he starts playing, my brain transports me to Blackpool, I could close my eyes and see the beach, seagulls, sticks of rock, trams, you name it. The Wurlitzer is literally the sound of Blackpool. Amazing 🎢
Brilliant to hear, cheerful sound it has. Haven't heard that sound since I last visited the Blackpool Tower ballroom some 12 years ago. Thanks to the owner for showing and playing it to us.
Good Evening Steve. Thank you very much for bringing us along to this Gentleman's house and to see such a Beautiful and Stunning Instrument of Sound and the most Beautiful music. This did remind me of the Tower Ballroom, when i watch Strictly Come Dancing one weekend. And of course the very Famous Phantom of the Opera. I really Enjoyed seeing Steve playing such Beautiful music on this Digital Pipe Organ a Wurlitzer. Very much Appreciated to watch and Hear this Gorgeous sound. Thank you Steve. ☺☺☺🤓🤓🤓💯💯💯💯💯👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹
Great Video Steve I Enjoyed It I Have Seen Phil Kelsall Many Times Here In The USA I Have Also Seen Robert Wolfe Simon Gledhill And Richard Hills All From The Uk That Digital Organ Is Fantastic Thanks For Posting Steve😊
Always enjoy hearing Stephen Austin. A fabulous Organist. I had the pleasure of visiting Stephen and John's home and was amazed by the sound of their home Electronic Wurlitzer 🤩
Thanks for another very intersting vid. I love the Wurlitzer - it brings back happy memories of holidays in Blackpool when I was a kid. My mum would take us to the Tower Ballroom and reminisce about dances she used to go to in the 1950's. Thanks to Steve for the lovely demo... even though it was digital it sounded great and I'd never heard "Down the Mall" before :) I suppose it's a bit like a synthesizer.
The Blackpool ballroom videos are on you tube ,I've been taking my family there for the last 28 years all the way from Glasgow X hope you see those videos x
Hi Stephen thank you for another great video as always that is an amazing looking wurlitzer and what a lovely gentleman too love the sound of them love listening to the ones in the tower ballroom fantastic have a great evening xx
Really impressive for a digital instrument. The sound came over well on the video and could easily be taken as that from a pipe instrument. Congratulations to the builders and thanks Stephen for your video.
Steve and his husband are two amazing humans with great skills. They have saved the organ from destruction. We have seen it in real life and it sounds breathtaking. Stephen , we are hoping to see coverage of the storms on the West Coast.
Thank you very much Stephen for featuring Steve and his beautiful Wurlitzer organ. The sound is magical! Another channel featured the largest pipe organ in the UK 🇬🇧 which is in Birmingham. Takes you back to another era.
What a remarkable find, and what a fabulous sound, that took me back to the “Good Old Days” the very talented gentleman is phenomenal, thank you 🙏 Stephan for a wonderful treat 🤗
Thanks stephen for another great video, this one more special to me as my dad loved the wurlitzer organ and he had many cd's of that music his favorite being Reginald Dixon. Mum and dad used to go dancing in the tower ballroom. So watching this brought back special memories, thankyou😊😊
Yes Stephen that was great Very enjoyable and interesting Any chance Steve could give us a longer show Amazing how they built it all from scratch after finding an old carcass to renovate A Conacher cinema organ was in Rotherham Odeon I remember it coming up through the floor during the intermission while we went for our ice cream As a kid in 60’s it always fascinated me It was taken out and rebuilt at an organ museum somewhere up north Just forgot where Happy days Thank you for another incredible episode 👍👍👍👍
Excellent enlightening vlog Stephen ..... What a wonderful instrument ! Thanks to Steve & John for their time, endeavour & talent resulting in the creation of this magnificent application of science within the arts.🎼🎵🎶👏😎
Wow what an amazing video Stephen, so amazing what is behind closed doors. Steve you sound very talented, I could sit and listen for ages. Wish you had a UA-cam channel too as its a fascinating instrument. Well Done both
What a treat Stephen ! Thank you so much for this great video. It brought back memories of my childhood listening on the wireless to Reginald Dixon from the Tower Ballroom in the 1950s. An amazing achievement to rebuild a digital version of this instrument.
Thank you Stephen for bringing us this lovely video and a big thanks to Steve Austin for allowing you to make this video. I would love that in my house. I do have a Rowland organ exactly the same as the one in The Blackpool Tower . My organ has a digital box too which has all the sampled sounds of the Blackpool Tower Wurlitzer
As an engineer/musician/producer, I have to say that I've never been a huge fan of the Wurlitzer sound, but I'm very impressed with what Steve has done. A labour of love and a true testament to dedication. Beautiful instrument. Although, stick to the day job Stephen! lol. Great video.
Absolutely brilliant. This is one digital instrument that I am very much in favour of. The Wurlitzer has many many fans, around the world and it's easy to see why. A very unique sound, and most evocative. I don't think we have heard the last of this wonderfully versatile instrument, by any means. Please keep us updated on any future plans that your host might have.
I loved this.. I’ve lived in Blackpool since I was 6.. I’m 39 now and as soon as he started playing it just flooded back memories of being a child and listening to the Whirlitzer in the tower… it is magical and it’s great of you for sharing this…
I love the sound of a Wurlitzer. The music from them is very nostalgic and special. Well done on these guys, recreating a fantastic and rare piece of musical history. He should have played 'The Birdie Song' so you could dance Stephen!
I thought we had a remade "Onslow " from keeping up appearances, i had to look up who played that part.Steve is a dead ringer . What a wonderful sounding organ .
Absolutely beautiful reproduction. My dad was a fan of the wurlitzer n a radio programme called the oragnists entertains, he would have loved to see this. Beautiful work
Thank you for an interesting video Stephen and thanks to Steve for letting you video it. Nothing like a Wurlitzer sound it's so unique and lovely to hear, totally different from anything else but always recognisable.😊😊😊
Yes Steven, they have a Wurlitzer organ in Pollokshawa Hall and also there is one at Sommerlee museum in Coatbridge too. You should come up to see them both.
That is a fabulous instrument and the guys have done very well in restoration. Digital is now part of the music scene, I play both piano and organ and my piano is digital. There are, of course, those who maintain 'proper organs have pipes' not an argument I wish to be involved with. Digital has helped us own and enjoy instruments we otherwise could either never afforded or have the space for. I am drooling with envy.
brought up on Reggie... 'Tiger Rag' sounds awesome in the tower ballroom. I was taught to play the organ and have since forgot most of it, but, my tutor said 'if it doesn't look like the flight control deck of the space shuttle, it's going to be boring'. he wasnt wrong! now I collect 'keyboards that tick the right boxes' and did for a long time, listen to 'the organist entertains' and have sat through many many organ recitals. there's just something about the wurlie in the tower ballroom though that has a sense of awe about it I can't define. yes, sat in on a tea dance in the ballroom just to hear the organ. I'm incurable. met Nigel Ogden twice - he hasn't disappointed!! he's done a spell in Blackpool too. yup, I have been something of an organ nut in the past.
Reginald played that organ in a very distinct way- sometimes almost 2 tunes at once - counterpoint? He and Sidney Torch are my favourite cinema organists.
Brings back very happy memories the sound of the Wurlitzer, sat with my mum and dad as a kid in the 80's eating fish and chips on a nice summers day outside Heskeths chippy on the corner near goldbergs/houndhill shopping centre with the Wurlitzer playing away, the sound is magical, thankyou Stephen taking me on a very happy trip down memory lane
I think this might be the most fascinating video you've ever posted Steve - a huge Wurlitzer in an upstairs bedroom. Incredible! 😄 Can I make a bold suggestion? You should have one of this talented gentleman's tune as the channel's lead in for the videos...
In the UK, although we had a lot of Wurlitzers imported, our most common cinema organs were Comptons. A few were also made by Christie, an offshoot of a company that built church organs. One feature that our organs had, which Wurlitzers weren't originally built with, was a light up surround round the console, with coloured bulbs inside, which gave a colour change effect, decades before RGB lighting.
Steve Austin... took me back to my six Millon Dollar Man days. Great playing Sir. What an amazing instrument. I heard the Wurlitzer in Blackpool Ballroom as a kid. The great Reginal Dixon was playing which he did for 50 years or so I heard him in the 60s ❤
What fun! Steve this is a good recreation of a Wurlitzer in a practical package for a home. I have heard and seen several actual Wurlitzers in the Los Angeles area of California. One was a two-manual in a warehouse. The pipe chamber had a glass window so you could see the pipes and the "toy counter," the percussion. It is now in the Pasadena City College auditorium. The most amazing was a three-manual instrument in a large private home outside of L.A. The chamber had glass windows so we could see the pipes and all of the "toys." The occasion was a Christmas party for the local American Guild of Organists chapter. Most of the members played "serious" organs in churches, but we all loved the sound of this instrument. Thank you for sharing. Your instrument seems to capture the sound of the classic Wurlitzers.
Wowser, I don't know how anyone ever learns to play something with that many keys, knobs, pedals, and switches, it's mind boggling and inspiring at the same time, must take years and years to master. ❤
Goodness just hearing that beautiful sound brought back memories for me with both my parents and grandparents down at the seaside not necessarily Blackpool, (although that’s where one automatically thinks of), but my hometown here in Great Yarmouth where we had one of these organs. It’s just an incredible sound and there’s hope for you yet Stephen playing at The Winter Gardens lol😄
What alot of people dont know about the Tower Ballroom Wurltizer is there is literally a full mechanical " orchestra" under the floor that nobody ever sees.Reginald Dixon was the master of playing it back in the day.
@@stephenaustinjohnnunns4854 Ok.My memory is not as it was but I do remember a tv programme showing how it all worked.Incredible enginnering non the less.
Hat's off to the two of them that made it and what an excellent find , tell you what though, you'd need to get in with your neighbours with that playing as it must be so so loud. Although I'm sure the room is sound proofed. Well done on finding it Stephen really fantastic and enjoyed it , amazing it sounds so good 👍
I am amazed of that hand made worlitzer the sound of it even if it's digital prosscessed and just to have it in a bedroom and play it to your hearts content. I have some records of the werlitzer and just by hearing that one is exactly the same .😊
Brilliant video! Brings back a lot of memories, especially when i use to buy the illuminations vhs and in the background wurlitzer played all the way through.
Yes Steve it was just like being in Blackpool tower it was just like being in the tower ball room in Blackpool what a beautiful organ thanks for sharing another very interesting video 👵🏻
New to your channel. This was fabulous! As someone who plays the piano, I am always in awe of organists and their dexterity apart from anything else. Lovely to hear Steve play - and amazing to hear about his and his husband's astonishing feat to restore the Wurlitzer and convert it to a digital sound. Brings back happy memories of Nigel Ogden and _The Organist Entertains._
Wow what a beautiful sound to be able to build something so lovely very talented guys thank-you you can see all the hard work that has gone into it and well done stephen for that tune I would not have had a clue see you on the next one x
The computer has digital samples of every note from a real Wurlitzer organ which is why it sounds exactly the same as a pipe instrument. It is possibly a Hauptwerk system. If you wanted, it could be programmed with any type of organ, be it church, cathedral, concert hall from any part of the world. It's an awesome system!
Absolutely amazing Wurlitzer organ. It sounded good on my cheap speaker on my tablet. It must have sounded amazing in that bedroom through a decent sounds system. That man and his partner did a fantastic job restoring it. It is great that they were able to use digital technology to replace the pipes. I fell in love with the Wurlitzer organ when I first saw Phil Kelsall rise out of the floor of a stage playing an amazing looking organ, the first I went to the Thursford Christmas Show in Norfolk in the 1990s. Phil Kelsall who play the Wurlitzer in the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool, spend his winters in Norfolk playing the Wurlitzer at the Thursford Christmas Show. The Thursford Christmas Show and village is fantastic. Well worth a visit. We're so lucky to have 3 Wurlitzer organs in Blackpool even though I haven't see the ones in the Winter Gardens. I must check them out. But I do love seeing the one in the amazing Tower Ballroom. I love the change over from the modern organ to the Wurlitzer when both organists are paying together and the Wurlitzer is rising out of the floor of the stage. Thank you Steve for showing us this amazing digital Wurlitzer organ. If you haven't been to Thursford Norfolk I highly recommend you to go. As well as being the vinue for an amazing Christmas show it is a Steam museum which houses the world's largest collection of steam engines and organs. Unfortunately I have never been to the museum part.
Thank you very much for your very kind offer to go and see your Wurlitzer organ. I would love to go somtime. Meanwhile I have subscribed to your you tube channel xxx
There’s no sound that sums up Blackpool better than the sound of a Wurlitzer organ. For all it may be a digitised version, it sounds virtually identical to the real thing. Absolutely magnificent instrument 👍
Its good to hear some happy music during these current storms. That is indeed a superb Wurlitzer.😀😀
Be better if it was buried at the bottom of his garden. Wurlitzer fans would pay good money to see that rise from the ground with Steve playing their favourite tunes for an hour or so. That's Steve and not Stephen of course! 🤣
It’s amazing how as soon as he starts playing, my brain transports me to Blackpool, I could close my eyes and see the beach, seagulls, sticks of rock, trams, you name it. The Wurlitzer is literally the sound of Blackpool. Amazing 🎢
Absolutely fantastic. What an incredible instrument, and credit to the owner for the time and dedication to build it.
Brilliant to hear, cheerful sound it has. Haven't heard that sound since I last visited the Blackpool Tower ballroom some 12 years ago. Thanks to the owner for showing and playing it to us.
Good Evening Steve. Thank you very much for bringing us along to this Gentleman's house and to see such a Beautiful and Stunning Instrument of Sound and the most Beautiful music. This did remind me of the Tower Ballroom, when i watch Strictly Come Dancing one weekend. And of course the very Famous Phantom of the Opera. I really Enjoyed seeing Steve playing such Beautiful music on this Digital Pipe Organ a Wurlitzer. Very much Appreciated to watch and Hear this Gorgeous sound. Thank you Steve. ☺☺☺🤓🤓🤓💯💯💯💯💯👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹
Wow 🤩 SPECTACULAR 🌟🎹🎹🎹🎹 thanks for sharing this with us ! 👏 incredible sound ! A work of ART 🤩
Stephen that Wurlitzer was amazing, "It's Keying Off in Blackpool" Lol 👍👍😁😎
What a brilliant job on restoration and sound. Thank you. 😊😊
Great Video Steve I Enjoyed It I Have Seen Phil Kelsall Many Times Here In The USA I Have Also Seen Robert Wolfe Simon Gledhill And Richard Hills All From The Uk That Digital Organ Is Fantastic Thanks For Posting Steve😊
I used to have piano lesson with Stephen and John decades ago. They were (ARE) amazing!
Always enjoy hearing Stephen Austin. A fabulous Organist. I had the pleasure of visiting Stephen and John's home and was amazed by the sound of their home Electronic Wurlitzer 🤩
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for another very intersting vid. I love the Wurlitzer - it brings back happy memories of holidays in Blackpool when I was a kid. My mum would take us to the Tower Ballroom and reminisce about dances she used to go to in the 1950's. Thanks to Steve for the lovely demo... even though it was digital it sounded great and I'd never heard "Down the Mall" before :) I suppose it's a bit like a synthesizer.
The Blackpool ballroom videos are on you tube ,I've been taking my family there for the last 28 years all the way from Glasgow X hope you see those videos x
A wonderful segment Stephen. What a find! A Wurlitzer built with love. Thank you.
Amazing that,,,Takes me back to being a kid,,,,Mum and dad taking me to the Blackpool Tower in the 60s,,, Thanks Steven ❤👍🌹
Hi Stephen thank you for another great video as always that is an amazing looking wurlitzer and what a lovely gentleman too love the sound of them love listening to the ones in the tower ballroom fantastic have a great evening xx
Glad you enjoyed it Wendy x
Really impressive for a digital instrument. The sound came over well on the video and could easily be taken as that from a pipe instrument. Congratulations to the builders and thanks Stephen for your video.
Steve and his husband are two amazing humans with great skills. They have saved the organ from destruction. We have seen it in real life and it sounds breathtaking. Stephen , we are hoping to see coverage of the storms on the West Coast.
Super.
Thank you very much Stephen for featuring Steve and his beautiful Wurlitzer organ. The sound is magical! Another channel featured the largest pipe organ in the UK 🇬🇧 which is in Birmingham. Takes you back to another era.
Wow what a find that was the music was awesome.Thank you for sharing 😁
Fantastic, what a lovely vlog, xx
What a remarkable find, and what a fabulous sound, that took me back to the “Good Old Days” the very talented gentleman is phenomenal, thank you 🙏 Stephan for a wonderful treat 🤗
Thanks stephen for another great video, this one more special to me as my dad loved the wurlitzer organ and he had many cd's of that music his favorite being Reginald Dixon. Mum and dad used to go dancing in the tower ballroom. So watching this brought back special memories, thankyou😊😊
Fantastic bit of kit, thanks Steve its really good to hear this machine. You have done a fantastic job with this. Thanks!
That sound takes me right back to listening to Raymond Wallbank on the North pier when I was a kid... Thank you
What a treat, I could listen to Steve play all day! Thanks for this Stephen!
Yes Stephen that was great Very enjoyable and interesting
Any chance Steve could give us a longer show Amazing how they built it all from scratch after finding an old carcass to renovate
A Conacher cinema organ was in Rotherham Odeon I remember it coming up through the floor during the intermission while we went for our ice cream As a kid in 60’s it always fascinated me
It was taken out and rebuilt at an organ museum somewhere up north Just forgot where
Happy days
Thank you for another incredible episode 👍👍👍👍
Excellent enlightening vlog Stephen ..... What a wonderful instrument !
Thanks to Steve & John for their time, endeavour & talent resulting in the creation of this magnificent application of science within the arts.🎼🎵🎶👏😎
Stephen and John are very good friends and I have visited to hear there home Wurlitzer. Its amazing
Absolutely brilliant! Cheers from Australia.
Fantastic, Stephen🎹 👏
Wow fabulous sound 👍 Thanks Stephen that was a little something different 😁
The Tremulant is what makes the Wurlitzer special, in Tamworth the St Edith’s Church organ has a tremulant similar to a Wurlitzer.
Wow what an amazing video Stephen, so amazing what is behind closed doors.
Steve you sound very talented, I could sit and listen for ages. Wish you had a UA-cam channel too as its a fascinating instrument.
Well Done both
What a treat Stephen ! Thank you so much for this great video. It brought back memories of my childhood listening on the wireless to Reginald Dixon from the Tower Ballroom in the 1950s. An amazing achievement to rebuild a digital version of this instrument.
Thank you Stephen for bringing us this lovely video and a big thanks to Steve Austin for allowing you to make this video. I would love that in my house. I do have a Rowland organ exactly the same as the one in The Blackpool Tower . My organ has a digital box too which has all the sampled sounds of the Blackpool Tower Wurlitzer
I was part of the Blackpool childrends ballet which run for many years ! Fond memories of this organ!!
Wow! Absolutely fantastic 👏
What an amazing find. Well done, Steve 👏👏👏
I remember Colin from Seaside visited this man a couple of years ago and filmed him , but it was good to hear him play again .
Beautiful instrument love it thanks Stephen xx
Glad you enjoyed it Elizabeth.
As an engineer/musician/producer, I have to say that I've never been a huge fan of the Wurlitzer sound, but I'm very impressed with what Steve has done. A labour of love and a true testament to dedication. Beautiful instrument. Although, stick to the day job Stephen! lol. Great video.
Absolutely brilliant. This is one digital instrument that I am very much in favour of. The Wurlitzer has many many fans, around the world and it's easy to see why. A very unique sound, and most evocative. I don't think we have heard the last of this wonderfully versatile instrument, by any means. Please keep us updated on any future plans that your host might have.
Absolutely stunning.
I loved this.. I’ve lived in Blackpool since I was 6.. I’m 39 now and as soon as he started playing it just flooded back memories of being a child and listening to the Whirlitzer in the tower… it is magical and it’s great of you for sharing this…
Glad you enjoyed it
I remember those two. They used to service the organ at my local music shop.
That was absolutely fabulous and as you say Stephen the sound is magical.
That video brings back some memories … congratulations to Steve … he was brilliant … 🎶🔆🎶🔆
I love the sound of a Wurlitzer. The music from them is very nostalgic and special. Well done on these guys, recreating a fantastic and rare piece of musical history. He should have played 'The Birdie Song' so you could dance Stephen!
Love it. A nice mix of the old and the new, but still needs talent x.
I thought we had a remade "Onslow " from keeping up appearances, i had to look up who played that part.Steve is a dead ringer .
What a wonderful sounding organ .
Absolutely fantastic - The Organist Entertains!
Fabulous takes me back to the good old days in Blackpool Tower thank you stephen that's cheered me up no end
Pure magic and thank you a great sound and a credit to the chaps that made it happen
Absolutely fascinating Stephen. Great video. Wow.
Absolutely beautiful reproduction. My dad was a fan of the wurlitzer n a radio programme called the oragnists entertains, he would have loved to see this. Beautiful work
The Organist Entertains - presented by Nigel Ogden.
A true labour of love really enjoyed this so thankyou
Thank you for an interesting video Stephen and thanks to Steve for letting you video it.
Nothing like a Wurlitzer sound it's so unique and lovely to hear, totally different from anything else but always recognisable.😊😊😊
Glad you enjoyed it Jan 🙏
That’s what you call a labour of love.
Fantastic.
Yes Steven, they have a Wurlitzer organ in Pollokshawa Hall and also there is one at Sommerlee museum in Coatbridge too. You should come up to see them both.
I should love to ...at some time in the future.
Thanks Stephen it's amazing how you source all the avenues for your vlog that was brilliant
That is a fabulous instrument and the guys have done very well in restoration. Digital is now part of the music scene, I play both piano and organ and my piano is digital. There are, of course, those who maintain 'proper organs have pipes' not an argument I wish to be involved with. Digital has helped us own and enjoy instruments we otherwise could either never afforded or have the space for. I am drooling with envy.
I absolutely loved this video Stevie, thank you 😘 xx
Thanks Moonage xx
brought up on Reggie... 'Tiger Rag' sounds awesome in the tower ballroom. I was taught to play the organ and have since forgot most of it, but, my tutor said 'if it doesn't look like the flight control deck of the space shuttle, it's going to be boring'. he wasnt wrong! now I collect 'keyboards that tick the right boxes' and did for a long time, listen to 'the organist entertains' and have sat through many many organ recitals. there's just something about the wurlie in the tower ballroom though that has a sense of awe about it I can't define. yes, sat in on a tea dance in the ballroom just to hear the organ. I'm incurable.
met Nigel Ogden twice - he hasn't disappointed!!
he's done a spell in Blackpool too.
yup, I have been something of an organ nut in the past.
Reginald played that organ in a very distinct way- sometimes almost 2 tunes at once - counterpoint? He and Sidney Torch are my favourite cinema organists.
Magic. I think of beach, sunshine and strolling down a promenade somewhere with an ice cream in my hand when I hear music from a Wurlitzer.
Wonderful, great video, very interesting and a super restoration, what a sound
Brings back very happy memories the sound of the Wurlitzer, sat with my mum and dad as a kid in the 80's eating fish and chips on a nice summers day outside Heskeths chippy on the corner near goldbergs/houndhill shopping centre with the Wurlitzer playing away, the sound is magical, thankyou Stephen taking me on a very happy trip down memory lane
Fabulous !! What a great thing - and a great player too! 👏
I think this might be the most fascinating video you've ever posted Steve - a huge Wurlitzer in an upstairs bedroom. Incredible! 😄
Can I make a bold suggestion? You should have one of this talented gentleman's tune as the channel's lead in for the videos...
Love the “Mighty Wurlitzer”, as it’s called here in Cincinnati OH. There’s nothing like the marvelous sound. Thanks Stephen.
In the UK, although we had a lot of Wurlitzers imported, our most common cinema organs were Comptons. A few were also made by Christie, an offshoot of a company that built church organs. One feature that our organs had, which Wurlitzers weren't originally built with, was a light up surround round the console, with coloured bulbs inside, which gave a colour change effect, decades before RGB lighting.
Steve Austin... took me back to my six Millon Dollar Man days. Great playing Sir. What an amazing instrument. I heard the Wurlitzer in Blackpool Ballroom as a kid. The great Reginal Dixon was playing which he did for 50 years or so I heard him in the 60s ❤
I remember Colin (Building Blackpool Better) coming here a couple of times, about two years ago. Beautifully nostalgic sounds.
Absolutely stunning instrument. Truly beautiful music.
Now that's a total work Of art , I can't get my head around all those keys ! Who had the vision for that !?!? And as for the originals 😲,,, 🏴👍
What fun! Steve this is a good recreation of a Wurlitzer in a practical package for a home. I have heard and seen several actual Wurlitzers in the Los Angeles area of California. One was a two-manual in a warehouse. The pipe chamber had a glass window so you could see the pipes and the "toy counter," the percussion. It is now in the Pasadena City College auditorium. The most amazing was a three-manual instrument in a large private home outside of L.A. The chamber had glass windows so we could see the pipes and all of the "toys." The occasion was a Christmas party for the local American Guild of Organists chapter. Most of the members played "serious" organs in churches, but we all loved the sound of this instrument. Thank you for sharing. Your instrument seems to capture the sound of the classic Wurlitzers.
Wowser, I don't know how anyone ever learns to play something with that many keys, knobs, pedals, and switches, it's mind boggling and inspiring at the same time, must take years and years to master. ❤
Goodness just hearing that beautiful sound brought back memories for me with both my parents and grandparents down at the seaside not necessarily Blackpool, (although that’s where one automatically thinks of), but my hometown here in Great Yarmouth where we had one of these organs. It’s just an incredible sound and there’s hope for you yet Stephen playing at The Winter Gardens lol😄
Well done to you showing what a brilliant job Steve and his partner have done in building that Wurlitzer as we say in Scotland pure dead Brilliant 😊😊😊
Great video Stephen. The Wurlitzer sounds fantastic. Just like in Blackpool 👍🥰❤️
It does Mildred!
Hi 👋 Steven fantastic sound ❤👍👍👍👍👍👋
What alot of people dont know about the Tower Ballroom Wurltizer is there is literally a full mechanical " orchestra" under the floor that nobody ever sees.Reginald Dixon was the master of playing it back in the day.
Rimmer (Red Dwarf) was a huge fan of Reg Dixon!
All organ pipes and glockenspiel, Xylophone, Drums, cymbals etc., are actually in two Chambers ABOVE the stage...behind the proscenium arch .
@@stephenaustinjohnnunns4854 Ok.My memory is not as it was but I do remember a tv programme showing how it all worked.Incredible enginnering non the less.
Hat's off to the two of them that made it and what an excellent find , tell you what though, you'd need to get in with your neighbours with that playing as it must be so so loud. Although I'm sure the room is sound proofed. Well done on finding it Stephen really fantastic and enjoyed it , amazing it sounds so good 👍
That’s right up my street listening to that fabulous instrument Stephen, great video.
Glad you enjoyed it Nigel
Amazing. Thank you so much for filming this and introducing us to this unique instrument.
Oh that was good, I don't think I ever heard one , it was such a happy , special sound of old times😄💙
I am amazed of that hand made worlitzer the sound of it even if it's digital prosscessed and just to have it in a bedroom and play it to your hearts content. I have some records of the werlitzer and just by hearing that one is exactly the same .😊
Brilliant video! Brings back a lot of memories, especially when i use to buy the illuminations vhs and in the background wurlitzer played all the way through.
Yes Steve it was just like being in Blackpool tower it was just like being in the tower ball room in Blackpool what a beautiful organ thanks for sharing another very interesting video 👵🏻
How fasinating lovely sound well played credit to you Stephen don’t give yer day job up 😂😂😂 till the next one 😊
New to your channel. This was fabulous! As someone who plays the piano, I am always in awe of organists and their dexterity apart from anything else. Lovely to hear Steve play - and amazing to hear about his and his husband's astonishing feat to restore the Wurlitzer and convert it to a digital sound. Brings back happy memories of Nigel Ogden and _The Organist Entertains._
Thanks for watching.
Wow what a beautiful sound to be able to build something so lovely very talented guys thank-you you can see all the hard work that has gone into it and well done stephen for that tune I would not have had a clue see you on the next one x
Wow Stephen what an amazing video! You really are spoiling us now. That organ sounds just like the real thing! Must take a lot of know how to play it.
What an amazing machine. Sounds superb 👌
I’m privileged to have played this amazing instrument. Hats off to John and Stephen for such a superb installation. It’s a joy to play 💕
You are always welcome, chaps xx
Exellent like to hear more fantastic job building it praise goes out to steve and his friend.
The computer has digital samples of every note from a real Wurlitzer organ which is why it sounds exactly the same as a pipe instrument. It is possibly a Hauptwerk system. If you wanted, it could be programmed with any type of organ, be it church, cathedral, concert hall from any part of the world. It's an awesome system!
Magical sound, Thanks for the demo.
Absolutely amazing Wurlitzer organ. It sounded good on my cheap speaker on my tablet. It must have sounded amazing in that bedroom through a decent sounds system. That man and his partner did a fantastic job restoring it. It is great that they were able to use digital technology to replace the pipes.
I fell in love with the Wurlitzer organ when I first saw Phil Kelsall rise out of the floor of a stage playing an amazing looking organ, the first I went to the Thursford Christmas Show in Norfolk in the 1990s. Phil Kelsall who play the Wurlitzer in the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool, spend his winters in Norfolk playing the Wurlitzer at the Thursford Christmas Show. The Thursford Christmas Show and village is fantastic. Well worth a visit.
We're so lucky to have 3 Wurlitzer organs in Blackpool even though I haven't see the ones in the Winter Gardens. I must check them out. But I do love seeing the one in the amazing Tower Ballroom. I love the change over from the modern organ to the Wurlitzer when both organists are paying together and the Wurlitzer is rising out of the floor of the stage.
Thank you Steve for showing us this amazing digital Wurlitzer organ. If you haven't been to Thursford Norfolk I highly recommend you to go. As well as being the vinue for an amazing Christmas show it is a Steam museum which houses the world's largest collection of steam engines and organs. Unfortunately I have never been to the museum part.
You are welcome to visit and see for yourself
Thank you very much for your very kind offer to go and see your Wurlitzer organ. I would love to go somtime. Meanwhile I have subscribed to your you tube channel xxx
Brilliant absolute joy to listen to
There’s no sound that sums up Blackpool better than the sound of a Wurlitzer organ. For all it may be a digitised version, it sounds virtually identical to the real thing. Absolutely magnificent instrument 👍
Well said!
I remember as a young lad the Wurlitzer at a ABC cinema that came up from under the floor, brilliant