While this is perhaps more politically-correct for a pipe organ list,
Wurlitzer built several styles of theatre organs with roll players.
Of the 2238 or so theatre organs built by Wurlitzer, well over 500
organs were built that were controlled by "Piano Consoles."  Some
time ago, this subject appeared on MMD.  Not all piano console organ
contained roll players, but a safe majority of them did have either
players for Wurlitzer Concert rolls or for regular 88-note player
piano rolls.

The Concert Rolls controlled the registration and expression while the
cheaper 88-note stack players required an operator to register and/or
express the organ.  The 88-note players seem roughly equivalent to what
was seen on the "Y" series of Wurlitzer Photoplayers, e.g., Style YO as
opposed to the regular style O.

The 88-note player series required stops on the Piano Manual to have
bass _and_ treble stops for each voice.  That is, a Vox Humana 8' (or
any other stop on the Piano Manual) would have to Vox Humana 8' stops
side by side.  The stop on the left would operate on keys #1 (CCC) to
middle F#.  Middle G on up would function from the right stop.

The purpose was to get some semblance of Pedal, Accompaniment, and
Solo lines all from the Piano Manual.  This same arrangement seems to
have been used on some Concert Roll players as well.  I have a "large"
9-rank Wurlitzer player organ that has a similar arrangement, but for
a standard 61-note organ manual.  However, the keyer relay for this
manual was 85 notes, thus the 85-note compass was the same as far as
the pipework was concerned.

Friend and fellow right-winger Al Sefl mentions the American Photoplayer
Company.  As far as I know, APC organs only used 88-note rolls, to be
registered by hand with rolls produced by the APC as "FilMusic." These
rolls were produced just for silent film work.  From time to time these
FilMusic rolls can be found in antique stores.  These are fascinating
examples of silent film accompaniment music.

As an interesting and sad aside to the 500 plus Wurlitzer piano console
organs, fewer than six intact piano console organs are left of all
those instruments.  Dave Bowers has his fabulous 4-rank+ style 135,
I have a 3-rank style 109, a 4-rank style 135 sits in many pieces
awaiting restoration in a San Francisco home, a single 3-rank style
108 remains in its original location and quite unplayable, and a 6-rank
style 160 is owned by the Underwood family in Indiana.  Lots of parts
and pieces remain of various instruments, but the intact organs are
exceedingly rare.  All five of the above listed organs were/are player
organs.

Of those listed above, only my 3-rank style 109 (quite separate from
my 9-rank player organ) is missing its original player.  It was removed
a scant few months before I bought the organ from a closed Los Angeles
mortuary in 1982.  If anyone has an intact pump, stack, spool box,
etc., for a Wurlitzer Photoplayer or piano console organ, I would love
to hear of it!

Of course this does not even begin to touch upon the highly specialized
players and rolls for the "R" series of Wurlitzer residence organs!
If anyone is interested in the topic, that is another subject.

Tom DeLay
Salinas, CA

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