Unlike Proctors’ familiar Wurlitzer organ, known as Goldie, the theater’s new electronic theater organ has four keyboards to Goldie’s three and 270 stops vs. 250. The new organ, to be played most ...

Photo by Janelle Patterson Different colored stops control how a theater organist creates the live sound effects and accompaniment for movies and shows. MARIETTA – Horns, whistles, cymbals and strings ...

That was a common refrain in the early 1920s when the grand movie palaces across the country began to introduce audiences to a new musical invention: the theater pipe organ. A century later, the same ...