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mxshift@treehouse.systems ("Rick Altherr") wrote:
Growing up, I spent a lot of time with my grandfather. He was an auto mechanic, an aircraft mechanic, and a tinkerer of all sorts. One of the biggest things he tinkered with was a Wurlitzer Hope-Jones Unit Orchestra (aka theatre orgran) that he purchased well before I was born and installed in his home. I've told plenty of folks about this but it's hard to convey the experience.
Recently, I've gotten everything put together to digitize VHS and one of the first I'm working on is a recording of him giving a demonstration. As he says in the video: "this is a demonstration, not a performance. This is about when these were built, why they were built, how they work, and a then a bit of performance to show how they were used." That video is going to take quite a bit of time to restore from the tape I have.
In the meantime, I found another tape that has a local news segment on him and his theatre organ. This is that tape straight from the capture.