WurliTzer Opus List

This WurliTzer Opus List contains details of the Theatre Pipe Organs and Church and Residence Pipe Organs
produced by the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company between 1911 and 1943.

It contains details of the instruments and of the locations at which each instrument was installed
and the subsequent movements of, and changes to, those instruments.

NEW!

After 12 years the Opus List has been restructured to interactively reference the database instead of having thousands of static pages created from the database. This should improve the versatility, especially in the search functionality. Hopefully all 21st century users will be able to navigate through it. The old version will remain available, below, for a while but may not be updated as frequently.

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OPUSLIST (New)

This list is based mostly on the printed listing produced by Judd Walton in 1970 and updated in 1973. Some corrections and additions have been made. The original list was produced using thousands of 80 column punch cards. These pages have been created directly from an MS-ACCESS database.

Wurlitzer was only one, but by far the largest, of many builders of Theatre Pipe Organs. This list only includes the Wurlitzer instruments but it may be extended to other builders if the information can be gathered to do it. Wurlitzer also produced many band organs and photoplayers which are not included in this list.

ERRORS and OMISSIONS

There are errors in this list, despite the best efforts of all involved. The information ranges back over a period of many years and there were no complete records kept from the beginning.
There are many omissions due to incomplete and lost records and to the fact that these instruments are still being moved, changed, lost and found in many countries around the world.

If you identify an error or know of any extra information there are several things that you could do.

Shoot your computer.
Yell at your cat. At least the cat will be better informed.
Tell the world and your information can be made available to future visitors to this site.
The list was limited to relocations and major changes but with current technology it is possible for all changes to be included. It would be wonderful, but impossible, to track every change including all additions, deletions or replacement of every console, rank of pipes, percussions, chests, regulators, openings, closings, births etc. The more information that is gathered now will mean that less information will be lost later.
Please include the source of your information so that any conflicting information may be checked and the conflict reconciled as well as it can be. If the only source of any piece of information is your memory then now is the time to copy it to non-volitile storage.

It always will be.

Terms and Jargon used in these pages.
Every specialty has them.

Other places to find information on Theatre Pipe Organs
Theatre Organ - has many useful links and much information.
American Theatre Organ Society
Pipe Organs and Related Topics

Visits since March 2008

Any information or constructive comments welcome.

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