Contributions over $2,450.00 came in to support the relocation of Walnut Hill Productions from Maryville, Tennessee to Clearwater, Florida. The entire process, when completed, will have taken over two months and lots of hard work by some very dedicated and true friends.

The move would not have been possible without the unconditional and unwavering friendship exibited by Tom Hoehn, who took a flight to Tennesse to get the Bone Doctor, rented a U-Haul truck to bring everything to Florida, and then shared his home during the months of August and September while Doc found his own place.

Thanks also go to Tom's wife, Katie, and Katie's wonderful father, Pappa Bill. These are fine folks, indeed and the world could use more people like them.

I want to thank these fine gentlemen who gave so generously to keep Walnut Hill going:

Before the move:

1. Tom Hoehn - $1,000 for airfare and trucking costs
2. Jim Reid - $400 reimbersment to Tom Hoehn

During the move:

1. Cyrus Roton - Check for $100
2. Dan Rowland - Check for $100
3. Vern Jones - Check for $100
4. Chaz Bender - Check for $100
5. Jim Reid - Check for $100
6. Fred Willis - Checks for $400

After the move:

1. Papa Bill - U-Haul truck rental
2. Fred Willis - Check for $100
3. William Stamm - Check for $50

We are still accepting contributions, and the move is expected to be completed during the first week of October. I took possession of the new facility on the 29th of September and began moving equipment and personal items in on the same day. By October 4th, mostly everything was in place and operational.

To find out how to take part, email the Bone Doctor. You can also call the Walnut Hill office at 1-727-230-2610 between 12 Noon and 6PM Monday through Friday. We can never thank you enough.

Walnut Hill is growing. We are becoming the most popular destination for theatre organ fans on the internet, and it is you, our loyal patrons, who have made this possible. I can never thank you enough, and it is truly an honor beyond words to serve those who love the King of Instruments.

Greetings from the Bone Doctor.

I want to thank the 12,065 visitors to our site this year. God bless all who come here.

Theatre Organ Replay Adds New Material!

Big Bertha at the Alabama Theatre

If you have yet to tune into Theatre Organ Replay at Live365.com, you have been missing out on one of the TPO worlds greatest treats. There is a wide selection of great songs from all your favorite artists, broadcast twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. It just doesn't get any better than that!

We quote the radio station's producer, Steve Worthington, below:

Just a quick update:

Enjoy!

Steve

Greetings from the Bone Doctor.

I want to thank the 12,036 visitors to our site this year. God bless all who come here.

Walnut Hill is having a record year in 2005 with over 12,000 visitors to date, making the month of October our busiest ever. You have made our site one of the top destinations for TPO fans on the internet, and we can never thank you enough. The Walnut Hill VTPO group on Yahoo! has 110 members.

In its first month of operation, the Theatre Organ Academy on Yahoo! has enrolled 70 students.

Also, the Mighty MidiTzer by Jim Henry and Crew Glasjev has aquired over 4,500 users worldwide. Yes, folks, the future is bright for the King of Instruments, indeed!

Greetings from the Bone Doctor.

I want to thank the 11,960 visitors to our site this year. God bless all who come here.

Music from Tom Hoehn and the Bone Doctor has been added to the Featured Organ of the Month for November 2005 page. Tom Hoehn can be heard playing the soundtrack to a puppet show rendition of Dracula entitled Harker. The Bone Doctor has three selections including Norwegian Wood by Paul McCartney of the Beatles.

Enjoy!

Greetings from the Bone Doctor.

I want to thank the 11,900 visitors to our site this year. God bless all who come here.

The Featured Organ for the month of Novenber is the 3/12 Robert Morton Theatre Pipe Organ installed at the Polk Theatre in Lakeland, Florida. It is the first Robert Morton to be featured here at Walnut Hill.

The page is still under heavy construction so wear your hard hat as you visit this new feature, for there is lots of content to come in the days ahead!

Greetings from the Bone Doctor.

I want to thank the 11,657 visitors to our site this year. God bless all who come here.

The Featured Organ for the Month of June, 2004 page has been updated to include all the recordings we have available from the Bone Doctor, Chaz Bender, and Tom Hoehn. There are a total of 35 songs for your listening pleasure. That's a lot of music, folks, and it's all free!

Greetings from the Bone Doctor.

I want to thank the 11,421 visitors to our site this year. God bless all who come here.

Fourty-nine years ago on Ocober 21st of 1956, Richard Mogridge, also known as the Bone Doctor, was born of William Edwin Mogridge Senior and Mary Naomi Perkins Mogridge at Blount Memorial Hospital in Maryville, Tennessee.

This year, he will be celebrating his birthday with his loving wife to be, Kimmy, and their dear friends, Dan and Janett Rowland in the sunny state of Florida, somewhere between Doc's place in Clearwater and Dan's place in Saint Petersburg. More news as the story develops. Stay tuned...

Greetings from the Bone Doctor.

I want to thank the 11,306 visitors to our site this year. God bless all who come here.

After a week long trial run, the Theatre Organ Academy opens its doors on Yahoo! and begins the process of nominating teachers for the winter quarter. Founded by the Bone Doctor, who is acting principal, the Academy promises to be the place to go to learn how to play the King of Instruments! There are currently 35 students enrolled.

Greetings from the Bone Doctor.

I want to thank the 11,272 visitors to our site this year. God bless all who come here.

Dan Rowland has seen a lot of activity at his house lately with two Walnut Hill artists coming over to play his Mighty MidiTzer. This has resulted in his Wall of Fame page being updated with new songs and pictures.

Tom Hoehn recorded three songs and the Bone Doctor recorded eight more. Papa Bill, one of the Walnut Hill Organ Club's founding fathers, went along to see and hear the custom installation and was so impressed that he is rumored to be designing one for Tom.

Enjoy the new material and stay tuned for further developments.

Greetings from the Bone Doctor.

I want to thank the 11,155 visitors to our site this year. God bless all who come here.

We finally got the very talented Tom Hoehn to go over to Dan Rowland's place to see his Mighty MidiTzer and give it a go. Tom blessed and wowed us with three selections, including Crazy by Patsy Cline, and two nice medleys.

Enjoy!

Russ Ashworth has been working on his Mighty MidiTzer installation. He has construncted a beautiful dog-leg bench to go with his virtual organ, making it more ergonomic and closer to the real thing. Way to go, Russ!

We posted some new pictures of the revised setup on his Wall of Fame page. Now that you know it can be done, get out your hammers, drills, and saws and get to work! Maybe Russ will send in some working drawings of this nice bench to make the job easier.

Greetings from the Bone Doctor.

I want to thank the 11,062 visitors to our site this year. God bless all who come here.

Dan Rowland and the Bone Doctor are teaming up on Dan's Mighty MidiTzer. Doc is recording on this wonderful installation, featured on Walnut Hill's Wall of Fame. This is perhaps the finest MidiTzer installation out there, bar none. It can do not only MidiTzer SoundFont stops from John Tay and Bruce Miles, but it can also use any SoundFont in Dan's collection. Fonts can be switched and controlled on the fly and the whole machine is contained in a lovely console Dan's son Dave built by hand.

Enjoy the glorious sound of Dan's Mighty MidiTzer!

Today. we posted a new song on Gary Klechowitz's Wall of Fame page, done on the Mighty MidiTzer. Gary is one of our treasured Mighty MidiTzer players, delivering a fine rendition of the theme song from Little Orphan Annie.

Gary is also submitting some of his sessions from his days at the console of the Mighty WurliTzer Theatre Pipe Organ installed at the Avalon Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Stay tuned as the songs roll in...

Enjoy!

Greetings from the Bone Doctor.

I want to thank the 11,000 visitors to our site this year. God bless all who come here.

Today marked another milestone for Walnut Hill. The hit counter rolled past 11,000 visitors for this year, giving us a record attendence the likes of which the site has not seen since it went online in April of 2004. We have had a total of 20,850 folks walk through our front door to date, making our site one of the busiest TPO destinations on the internet. We are here to serve and an honor it is to do this for you, our loyal fans.

Today, Aaron Stayt was inducted into the Walnut Hill Wall of Fame. He is the seventeenth person to receive this honor. Better known as Maxxarcade on Yahoo!, Aaron is a member of the Theatre Organ SoundFonts group.

Greetings from the Bone Doctor.

I want to thank the 10,952 visitors to our site this year. God bless all who come here.

The new office at Walnut Hill is starting to take shape with Kimmy having her new computer desk, courtisy of Dan and Janett Rowland, set up.

Most of our things are unpacked and organized. Now if we can just fugure out how to pay the bills...

Greetings from the Bone Doctor.

I want to thank the 10,853 visitors to our site this year. God bless all who come here.

Last night, we added fourteen new selections to Eugene Hayek's Featured Artist page that he submitted to Leo Christopherson for playback on the Mighty Hauptwerk 5 manual Virtual Band Organ Leo built.

Enjoy!

Greetings from the Bone Doctor.

I want to thank the 10,624 visitors to our site this year. God bless all who come here.

Walnut Hill is back in "bidness" and all things are running relatively smooth except for an extreme shortage of funds. We have almost gotten everything unpacked, now the question is where to put everything! Out telephone is working and our online connection is as fast as lightning with Brighthouse and Roadrunner supplying the high-speed internet connection and Vonage bringing our VoiP phone into play.

With the Archives for September 2005 now up, we have a total of 130 pages at the site, with more on the way as new content is added in the days ahead. Stay tuned...

Greetings from the Bone Doctor.

I want to thank the 10,572 visitors to our site this year. God bless all who come here.

The Bone Doctor's dear wife to be, Kimmy, arrived at Tampa Airport at 12:48PM on October 1st. The Bone Doctor and Tom Hoehn were there to greet her and take her to her new home.

Tom Hoehn posted the details of the move at the Walnut Hill VTPO group on Yahoo! and we quote him below:

Folks --

On Saturday morning (11:30 AM) I picked up Doc in my trusty 2000 Kia, and we proceeded to Tampa International Airport where the Bone Doctor and his beloved Kimmy were reunited. After taking her and her luggage home, we then went shopping for necessities like window blinds and flatware and paper towels. All the usual stuff that is necessary to setup house. I left them at 3:30 PM.

At 5:00 PM Papa Bill, Katie and myself picked up Doc and Kimmie in Papa Bill's 1991 Mercury Grand Marquis (while the Kia is trusty and runs well I can't put 5 adults in it, besides one seat belt retractor is frozen and even the slimmest of passengers would be strangled). We went to Cody's Roadhouse for dinner, then back to Casa Hoehn for a quick sit and get acquainted along with a round of an excellent tawny port for after dinner.

Tom Hoehn, Organist
CFTOS/Manasota/OATOS/HiloBay/WHOC/AGO
Roaring 20's Pizza & Pipes (substitute - 4/42 Wurlitzer)
First United Methodist Church, Clearwater, FL (4/9? - Rodgers/Ruffati/Wicks)

The Walnut Hill Website will be updated during the latter half of the first week in October as we settle in at the new office. Stay tuned...