Cinema organs that find new homes-- in... well--- homes.....

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Every now and again I run across links or web pages, etc... describing, and in many cases have pictures of, cinema organs installed in private residences.

An example http://bluemoonwalkinghorses.com/Style_D_Description5_rev3.htm  is located in Sherwood, Oregon.

There are other private residences housing cinema organs in the Puget Sound area, the closest one to me I know of is a house called Wurlitzer Manor...  It was a featured instrument in the American Theater
Organ Society 2010 annual convention, along with a couple of other residential cinema organs...

The Wurlitzer Manor homepage...http://wurlitzermanor.com/

Included in this link is the list of "selected residence installations", courtesy of the Puget Sound Theater Organ Society...http://www.pstos.org/instruments/inst-pri.htm

Our Forum Administrator has favorited a Youtube video of an instrument installed in a residence in Arizona...  Console on that one is even on a hydraulic lift! 

As I find more out I will reply to or modify this post...

Eric
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This article appeared today on my local newspaper's website ;D ;)

http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2011/feb/16/pipe-organs-a-lifelong-obsession-for-port-ludlow/

To get organs like this, Schlade's part of a network of people like him poised to snatch them from old churches and theaters before the wrecking ball hits. The Kimball once stood in a church in Walla Walla. Moving it took many truckloads of parts. While he had help piecing it together, Schlade admits he could use a staff to help with all the projects he has planned for it, like expanding its ranks.

Standing close by the Kimball is one of the last grand dames pipe organs built for silent movies, a shining gold-and-red 1928 rococo theater organ from Royal Oak, Mich. It's packed with all the instruments silent-movie players leaned on in the day — snare drum, cow bell, boat whistle, celeste and bird tweets. Garish and delightful, it was the "circus-wagon" model made by the Barton Organ Co.

The soft-spoken eclectic vet also grows grapes, and has had the lodge for sale for years now, as he dreams of moving to the Palouse to grow more of them.

There hasn't been a bite.

"Somebody that buys this place has to be into pipe organs. Let's face it," he said.

Read more: http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2011/feb/16/pipe-organs-a-lifelong-obsession-for-port-ludlow/#ixzz1ECF2MLlS