Hi Robbie, As far as I know, there is only one extant model 164
Wurlitzer. The last I knew it was owned by the wife of Paul Turin,
whom I think lived in New Jersey. I have some recordings that I made
of it several years ago. Sadly, it was in need of a tuning but still
an impressive sounding instrument. I saw and heard it last year at the
Band Organ Rally at Fremont, Ohio.
There was also one made for someone in the Southeast, possibly South
Carolina, that was a "reproduction" organ. It may have been made by
the Lance Johnson Organ Company of Dakota but I'm not sure about that.
Hal Davis
[ Tom Grace told me that there's an illustration in the Bowers'
[ Encyclopedia, page 939, which resembles the North Tonawanda
[ organs with no facade and exposed pipes. It must have been
[ very noisy! -- Robbie
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