Ha! You can probably get pizza closer to home... and at least you have that EMS/GDH organ at Woolsey Hall!

Viel macht glaube ich auch die die Nutzung des Tremulanten.

Theatre organs are their own valid art form. One can appreciate and love all forms of organ equally - a great Wurlitzer or Robert-Morton is just as deserving of affection as are the Cavaillé-Colls at Saint Ouen Rouen, Saint Sulpice Paris and Saint Francois de Sales Lyon, the Hildebrandt at the Wenzelkirche, Naumburg-an-der-Saale, the Walckers at the Annenkirche in Annaberg-Buchholz and Riga Dom, the Sauer at the Berlinerdom, the Schnitgers at Hamburg, Groningen, Alkmaar and Zwolle, the Müllers at Haarlem and Leeuwarden, the Schyven at Antwerp Cathedral, etc etc. There are a substantial number of theatre organs in Germany and the Low Countries too, several of them of British origin - their organists by and large have no snobbishness towards them. In London, the 4/25 Wurlitzer at the Troxy, Limehouse ranks up there as one of the best organs in London, alongside the Schmidt/Willis/Mander at St Paul's, the Willis III at Westminster Cathedral, the Harrison & Harrison at the Temple Church, the T. C. Lewis at Southwark Cathedral, etc etc... There have even been some highly successful crossover instruments which do both theatrical and classical, nowhere more successfully than the John Compton at Southampton Guildhall, which is as good a theatre organ as a Wurlitzer and as good a classical organ as the Willis III at St Mary's Southampton or the Willis/Hele/Harrison at Winchester Cathedral...

@@richardharrold9736 I get what you are saying locally, we have a very local civic theater that has a beauty fully restored & performed on frequently. My point was some cathedral organs like a Polish built Zych leave us staggering in their dust. Have you seen one?

@@davidlane1169 I am aware of Zych and am very impressed by their work, but have yet to experience one in the flesh, sadly. I know Skrabl in Slovenia are doing some amazing work - we have a smallish 4-manual one in London now and it's a very fine thing indeed. Eule in Bautzen are turning out some wonderful organs these days too (e.g. Magdalen Oxford, and St Jakob Straubing)! Even Rieger, a firm I derided for many years, is now turning out some seriously impressive instruments - the new Mainz Dom organ is a stunner. In America, Taylor & Boody and Dobson are turning out absolutely first-rate work - the new Dobson at St Thomas Fifth Avenue has what is for my money one of the finest new organ cases of the last century, anywhere in the world. So don't write off your fellow countrymen! We have examples of both those firms' work here in Britain now, and they are very fine indeed. None of those instruments, however, is the slightest use for playing Cole Porter or Rodgers & Hart or any of that stuff! Which a Wurlitzer is perfect for.

Yes, I was very much entertained. There is a place for all types of music and your snobbery only diminishes your point. Good grief!

@@davidlane1169 I haven't seen a Zych in person, but I am aware of the firm's rapidly growing reputation. Equally, I am aware of the excellent work that the likes of Fritts, Dobson, Taylor & Boody and Fisk are doing in the USA. None of which in any way diminishes the value of fine theatre organs or of the repertoire played on them

Amazing performance! Such skill on a difficult instrument!

Yeah, but there's a place for 4/4 interpretations that are easier to dance to. Used to be very common in the old ballroom days.

@@richardharrold9736 4/4 or even cut time destroys the unique "edge" of the piece.. Playing 5/4 is no different than any other time signature except that there are 5 counts to the measure instead of 4 or 3 or 2.

Nope, been there since the 1990s at least.

Sad. I remember those great Pizza and Pipes places! I last went to one in 1988.