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eight decades of absence from the public scene, the majestic sounds of
the most powerful musical instument ever produced will once again be
heard in Lexington, KY. Kentucky's Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Organ
Project, Inc. has begun the massive project of renovating and
reinstalling the Mighty Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ in the Kentucky
Theater of downtown Lexington. Please take some time to look around and
learn about our project. Please check back often as we will be updating
our site as the project progresses!
The
theater organ is a uniquely American musical invention, necessitated as
a means of providing sound accompaniment in the silent era of motion
pictures, from 1910-1932.
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The
theater organ has been described as the "heart and soul" of motion
picture houses and movie palaces. Nearly 7,000 theater organs were
performing each day when the motion picture screen finally learned to
speak in 1927. Soon after, theater organs were abandoned, discarded,
sold, given to churches and/or languished for years dormant in their
theaters.
This project returns an
original historic theater organ back to its rightful theator venue.
Little remains of the once glorious "golden Age of the Movie Palace"
and, unfortunately, no theater organs remain in any theaters in the
state of Kentucky!
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