11/3/2023 0 Comments Wurlitzer organ orbit model 630![]() Fortunately, a lovely Connsonata organ fell into my hands before I got around to doing surgery on the old Wurlitzer, and it had all the wonderful bright tones and upperwork (on the upper manual only of course) that I wanted at the time. Of course that would've been a TON of work, had it actually attempted it. Even thought about jacking it off the floor and fitting a full-size pedalboard underneath it. I was going to really make a silk purse out of that sow's ear. Loved that old organ so much that I had dreams of physically remodeling it so I could move the upper keyboard an octave to the left, re-labeling the 16' stops as 8', the 8' as 4', 4' as 2', and so on. ![]() Leaned my body severely to the right to reach the notes, while stretching my legs severely to the left to reach the pedals! ![]() So, like you, Larry, I loaded it up with 16' stops and played both hands on the upper, an octave up. It had a fairly broad set of footages on the upper manual, all the way from 16' up to 2', though the 2' was just a very mild flute tone. It was a bit limited, but of course that's considered actually something of a "classic" old Wurlitzer nowadays. I started out playing an old Wurlitzer model 4300 spinet in a small country church in 1993.
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