I remember when I was a kid my parents took me to a pizza parlor called Kens Melody Inn in Redwood City, Ca. There would be nightly organ music playing but this organ was powered by electricity and air pressure. The organ would activate shutters & bells (along the wall) and would blow air through varying sized vertical pipes, etc .
Does anyone remember these? Did they have one in your town? Thanks, Kit
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There was one on the east side of Indianapolis years ago. Filled up the whole wall. Bells, strings, percussion, horns, pipe organ, really an incredible device. IIRC only a few were ever built.
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Pizza and Pipes in Redwood City. Loved it as a kid. What appears to be mirrors behind the organ are actually windows showing the HUGE room with the pipes. It runs almost the entire width of the restaurant:
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I have a customer (water treatment) that has a complete pipe organ set up in his basement (large home) on Turkey Point in North East Maryland. He removed it from a church and than restored it to like new condition. Him and his wife both play it.
Within the past year, I've been to 2 different funerals where the churches had pipe organs. Fully functional and used in weekly worship services. I normally associate them with the Catholic and Lutheran churches, but surprisingly, these were Methodist and Baptist.
I remember when I was a kid my parents took me to a pizza parlor called Kens Melody Inn in Redwood City, Ca. There would be nightly organ music playing but this organ was powered by electricity and air pressure. The organ would activate shutters & bells (along the wall) and would blow air through varying sized vertical pipes, etc .
Does anyone remember these? Did they have one in your town?
Vancouver had the Organ Grinder Pizza Restaurant when I lived there in late 70's (part of a chain with 3-5 I think). It's entertaining and downright amazing when you get a skilled musician playing! It's music you can "feel"
When I was a kid, my dad was big into pipe organs. He had two of the actual "organs" (the part with the keyboards) and at least one full set of pipes. I doubt it was a full-size "professional" pipe organ or just a hobbyist-size one you could have in the home. Various loose pipes and others in some sort of wooden racks filled half the basement. Anyway, we moved at some point and all the pipes and one of the organs were sold (or something) but the other organ still sits in my parent's basement, collecting dust.
Pizza and Pipes in Santa Clara. I went there from when I was a baby, they finally removed the pipe organ and had and electronic one, then removed that. In the early 70s' the guy playing was really able to take advantage of all the additional instruments besides that pipe based roar.
There was one on the east side of Indianapolis years ago. Filled up the whole wall. Bells, strings, percussion, horns, pipe organ, really an incredible device. IIRC only a few were ever built.
The Mighty Wurlitzer at the Paramount Music Palace.
I remember we used to make a special hour and a half drive twice a year to go eat pizza and listen to the awesome sound of the (then 44 rank) Mighty Wurlitzer. The particular model of Wurlitzer installed at PMP actually had about a dozen siblings.
Somebody mentioned Pizza and Pipes, that wouldn't per chance, have been in the 60's/70's-ish? If so, it was the same organ(albeit modified by the time it reached Indy in the 80's) at both places.
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I remember when I was a kid my parents took me to a pizza parlor called Kens Melody Inn in Redwood City, Ca. There would be nightly organ music playing but this organ was powered by electricity and air pressure. The organ would activate shutters & bells (along the wall) and would blow air through varying sized vertical pipes, etc .
Does anyone remember these? Did they have one in your town? Thanks, Kit
Most Catholic churches still have them. They're expensive to maintain, but my church has one... most new churches just get the electronic synthesizer style (Roland / Korg / Yamaha) of organ... it's cheaper, and doesn't require any of the tuned-length organ pipes.
(I'm not a "concert" guy)
