Peterborough Wurlitzer Site
The History
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The story of the Wurlitzer Theatre Organ. Installed in the Peterborough
Regional College Hall started in the mid 1970s when a band of enthusiasts
removed the organ from the Gaumont (formerly
Regent) Cinema in the town of Dudley in the Midlands. A team led by
Roy Mosley spent many hours dismantling the organ into hundreds of pieces,
before transporting it back to Peterborough for storage, until a suitable new
home could be found for it. The organ is
a fine example of a 2/6 Model-F (2 keyboards and
6 pipe ranks) of which only a few of the type were made. The organ was
manufactured at the Wurlitzer factory in the United States before being
installed in the Regent Cinema in 1928. Under the
auspices of the Peterborough Organisation
an electronic organ society founded to serve the interests of organ music
lovers in Peterborough and Chaired by Roy Mosley, a fund was set up to
restore the organ to its former glory and to find a suitable home. Later, when
the Wurlitzer was up and running the Peterborough Theatre Organ Preservation Society (PTOPS) Came into
being, taking over from the Organisation.
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