The cost of the instrument was £25,000 (a mind blowing $2,000,000 in Australian dollars today)Īcquired from the Theatre in the 1960’s by a Sydney enthusiast Mr John Atkinson who was keen to preserve this magnificent instrument it found a new home in the family home in Hurstville a suburb of Sydney. This massive instrument was installed in the palatial Regent Theatre in George Street Sydney, NSW in 1927 as a centerpiece of the theatre. One of these magnificent instruments is the Wurlitzer Style 260 Opus No 1808 which was one of six Style 260 3 Manual / 15 Rank theatre pipe organs shipped to Australia in the 1920s. In the 1920s, the time of silent movies, before the talking pictures and long before the advent of colour pictures there existed the magnificent Wurlitzer pipe organ.ĭesigned to provide the musical accompaniment to a film be it a dramatic, humorous or historic film the mighty Wurlitzer organs were installed in the palatial moving picture theatres of yester year.
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