![]() Jsaw a drastic departure from the usual “Sunday Morning” club organ concerts at the “Riv”. On “D” day 1944 the organ was in good enough shape for organist Carlton to celebrate the event by giving the first public concert at the Riviera in at least 10 years. There followed months of hard labor, cleaning magnets, removing fallen plaster from organ pipes, replacing missing and damaged pipes, and cleaning of electrical contacts. Carlton Finch and his father Harry obtained an OK from the theatre’s management to restore the organ in 1944, only part of the great manual would play. Time and lack of maintenance took its toll on the instrument. In the early 1930’s use of the organ was discontinued as a regular program feature, and heard thereafter only on special occasions. The console was painted and decorated to harmonize with the Theatre’s interior, by Wurlitzer’s Band Organ Artist. Other differences included the omission of the standard remote Piano, and a 5 H.P. Listed as a Model 235 Special, the organ differed from a standard 3 manual 11 rank Model 235, by substituting an Oboe Horn rank of pipes from the standard Salicional pipes usually found on this model. The Wurlitzer Organ to be installed in the new Theatre, Opus 1524 was shipped from the Wurlitzer Factory on November 19, 1926.
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