".. To save the neighbours ears"? Please, you could do a lot worse than have a giant Wurlitzer move in next door. Just pull up a chair and pass the popcorn. If you don't like it.. 🤔 Go and Take a Walk in the Black Forest.
The organ was removed in 2016 by Kevin Grunill and is currently at the Astoria Centre in Barnsley where it is being restored. A purpose built concert hall is being erected in Suffolk for the organ to be saved for future generations!
And the modern equivalent is Sam from Look Mum No Computer! Haha. Glad this kind of stuff has been going on a long time. I love those square wooden pipes.
Fascinating!!! I wonder how much of that is still there, in that house? Maybe the current owners have no idea of it’s interesting past, but have wondered for years what all the holes and brackets were for 😂
Len Rawle has a Wikipedia page and is apparently still alive (born 1938). Regarding the organ: ‘That instrument was sold to a fellow enthusiast in 2015 to be restored and installed in a new purpose-built location in Suffolk. Rawle was also involved in a £40,000 project restore the Granada Tooting Wurlitzer organ, described as "one of the most significant restoration projects in the UK".’
Len is certainly still alive and well! The Empire Wurlitzer is in the process of being restored by Kevin Grunill and his team up in Barnsley for it to be installed in the purpose-built hall in a few years time. The Tooting Wurlitzer has unfortunately had the water treatment too many times and is currently out of action and has been for the past 16 years. It didn't even last 2 months from being reopened to getting flooded again!
@@WurliTzer1938 That's so disheartening to hear about the Tooting Wurlitzer. I am also a concert organist and play these wonderful instruments and know something about them and I know Len as well. I watched the re-opening of the tooting Wurlitzer just a couple of days ago and it sounded so wonderful under the hands of Len, Doreen Chadwick and Kevin Morgan. If it can ever be restored again it would be best to place it in a dry environment.
Incredible. And wonderful also that the instrument was saved from being scrapped. Can't be many cinema organs still in existence. I wonder if this one is still around in the bungalow " with 16 ' thick (!) walls ".
Having followed Look Mum No Computer buying, transporting and rejigging a church organ from a home to a museum, I do hope that Wurlitzer here gets the same epic treatment when it got/gets retired and a family reclaims the volume it takes up.
The organ is being put into a purpose-built hall in Suffolk once it is fully restored by Kevin Grunill and his team up in Barnsley. The hall will be dedicated to the organ and its history which will be amazing! I personally cannot wait for this project to finish.
This reminds me of Richard McVeigh, who has a church organ set-up in his house, from which he streams on his YT channel every Sunday. He doesn't have any pipes though, it's all done with Hauptwerk software and loudspeakers.
@@rjjcms1 In the video it is mentioned that the house was designed with 16" thick walls to help with soundproofing. The father of the bloke who started Behringer also had a pipe organ in his house and that's Switzerland where noise in verboten.
Amazing to think of a theatre organ in a house! I would imagine it would have had a bit of a strangle hold on the sound from a full blown Wurlitzer, but you have to hand it to Mr Rawle for doing it at a time when these organs were nothing more than scrap value to most? The theatre organ world in the UK is indebted to the Rawles for their tireless work on these instruments and characters like them are hard to find these days?
@@fidelcatsro6948 the very very early organs, centuries ago, were human powered by huge bellows and a team of people! In the Victorian era they were commonly steam powered.
You couldn't have said that any better. When it's on full (or when it actually sounds like a "traditional" one)...it's metal material (to me). There are ways to make it scream (and sound goofy AF), like a Hammond/Leslie. I still am baffled AF as to why these were put all over the place, decades ago.
With the right registrations, it sounds like a synth. And that is a fact...the evolution of synthesis, started with the organ, which has an extensive history.
".. To save the neighbours ears"?
Please, you could do a lot worse than have a giant Wurlitzer move in next door.
Just pull up a chair and pass the popcorn.
If you don't like it..
🤔
Go and Take a Walk in the Black Forest.
Also featured in John Betjeman's 'Metroland' documentary... I wonder if that organ is still there now ?
Yes, excellent trivia knowledge!
The organ was removed in 2016 by Kevin Grunill and is currently at the Astoria Centre in Barnsley where it is being restored. A purpose built concert hall is being erected in Suffolk for the organ to be saved for future generations!
I bet, lookmumnocomputer starts researching right now, where this is organ is now an where he will be able to put it in his museum
Rest in Peace uncle Len - you left many fantastic memories behind. The Fitchs
Reading today that Len Sadly passed away a few days ago, a great loss to the Uk Cinema organ scene
Len Rawle is still working on the theatre organ scene, I saw him as recent as last year I think it was, at the Shrewsbury buttermarket
And the modern equivalent is Sam from Look Mum No Computer! Haha. Glad this kind of stuff has been going on a long time. I love those square wooden pipes.
Fascinating!!! I wonder how much of that is still there, in that house? Maybe the current owners have no idea of it’s interesting past, but have wondered for years what all the holes and brackets were for 😂
Only the relays (the brains of the organ), are still in the house due to them being installed in the roof!
@@WurliTzer1938 Ah, from your name, I guess this particular installation is well known amongst fellow organists! 👍
@@iixorb It's very well known! So well known that a random 15 year old (myself) is getting to work on it for a week in May this year!
@@CrazyKitBuilder Wonderful ❤
i’m his granddaughter, my granddad and nana still live there! in their 80s now and the organ is gone but they are thriving
Len Rawle has a Wikipedia page and is apparently still alive (born 1938). Regarding the organ:
‘That instrument was sold to a fellow enthusiast in 2015 to be restored and installed in a new purpose-built location in Suffolk. Rawle was also involved in a £40,000 project restore the Granada Tooting Wurlitzer organ, described as "one of the most significant restoration projects in the UK".’
Thanks for the info!
Len is certainly still alive and well! The Empire Wurlitzer is in the process of being restored by Kevin Grunill and his team up in Barnsley for it to be installed in the purpose-built hall in a few years time. The Tooting Wurlitzer has unfortunately had the water treatment too many times and is currently out of action and has been for the past 16 years. It didn't even last 2 months from being reopened to getting flooded again!
@@WurliTzer1938 That's so disheartening to hear about the Tooting Wurlitzer. I am also a concert organist and play these wonderful instruments and know something about them and I know Len as well. I watched the re-opening of the tooting Wurlitzer just a couple of days ago and it sounded so wonderful under the hands of Len, Doreen Chadwick and Kevin Morgan. If it can ever be restored again it would be best to place it in a dry environment.
The whole house is a Wurlitzer.
Just amazing, talk about determination. Good on him.
Incredible. And wonderful also that the instrument was saved from being scrapped. Can't be many cinema organs still in existence. I wonder if this one is still around in the bungalow " with 16 ' thick (!) walls ".
Having followed Look Mum No Computer buying, transporting and rejigging a church organ from a home to a museum, I do hope that Wurlitzer here gets the same epic treatment when it got/gets retired and a family reclaims the volume it takes up.
The organ is being put into a purpose-built hall in Suffolk once it is fully restored by Kevin Grunill and his team up in Barnsley. The hall will be dedicated to the organ and its history which will be amazing! I personally cannot wait for this project to finish.
@@WurliTzer1938 that's fantastic news! Thank you for informing the folks here in the comments :)
@@kaitlyn__L No problem! I just had to find a way to be a nerd somehow...
This reminds me of Richard McVeigh, who has a church organ set-up in his house, from which he streams on his YT channel every Sunday. He doesn't have any pipes though, it's all done with Hauptwerk software and loudspeakers.
jolly good 😅😊
Oh I do like to beside the seaside I do like to beside the sea , I bet the neighbours love him 😬
I was just thinking "I trust it's a detached house...with a very large garden".
@@rjjcms1 In the video it is mentioned that the house was designed with 16" thick walls to help with soundproofing.
The father of the bloke who started Behringer also had a pipe organ in his house and that's Switzerland where noise in verboten.
I would welcome as a neighbour. Fascinating in fact.
THESE ARE VERY LUCKY PEOPLE MOST OF US HAVE TO MAKE DO WITH PORTABLE KEYBOARDS!
Mr.Rawle was last seen descending into the cellar.
Very good but how did the marriage go
Nice to see Mrs Merton again
Amazing to think of a theatre organ in a house! I would imagine it would have had a bit of a strangle hold on the sound from a full blown Wurlitzer, but you have to hand it to Mr Rawle for doing it at a time when these organs were nothing more than scrap value to most?
The theatre organ world in the UK is indebted to the Rawles for their tireless work on these instruments and characters like them are hard to find these days?
I feel sorry for those kids that were forced to listen to that noise.
LMAO he’s my granddad my mum was completely fine
Someone needs to introduce this man to the Groovebox
#lookmumnocomputer
First thing that came to my mind too 😆
Saw the Vox Humana reeds in the video
did this strange machine run on electricity or was it all from mechanical clockwork??
Ran off of a (if I remember correctly), 9 horsepower blower powered by the wonderful medium of electricity!
@@WurliTzer1938 oh i see...i thought it was purely mechanical human powered.. thank you
@@fidelcatsro6948 the very very early organs, centuries ago, were human powered by huge bellows and a team of people! In the Victorian era they were commonly steam powered.
@@kaitlyn__L WOW
@@fidelcatsro6948 Nope! All electric. I went back and found out that it uses a 15 horsepower blower motor!
what's the music at the end
Liking the sound of a Wurlitzer is a lot like liking the sound of Death Metal... Only a few people can stand it!
You couldn't have said that any better. When it's on full (or when it actually sounds like a "traditional" one)...it's metal material (to me). There are ways to make it scream (and sound goofy AF), like a Hammond/Leslie. I still am baffled AF as to why these were put all over the place, decades ago.
Synthetic music this early?!
i bet the words he said in his life less than his lines
Pipe organs were the earliest form of synth, they go back to the Romans.
With the right registrations, it sounds like a synth. And that is a fact...the evolution of synthesis, started with the organ, which has an extensive history.
Wouldn't like to get their electricity bill, especially not nowadays!
Ah…The BBC in the 70’s with men playing their organs to an audience Nationwide.
Reminds of the church organ Sam from @lookmumnocomputer took out of a house and has been resorting at his museum.
Goodness me!
first casiotone
that poor family
The Wurlitzer with a built in house. Amirite??
His wife and children never recovered.
@lookmumnocomputer
lookmumnocomputer needs to see this. I wonder what became of this organ house?
He has - I pointed it out to Sam yesterday on his channel (and he said it’s great 👍)