Nethercutt Museum Organ Demonstration

oh, let me see, you two could stand inside while it rings, that rings, yeah, they're mounted along this wall and they're so tall they go up to the fifth floor, one of those pipes is so powerful it moves this entire building. Isn't it so beautiful? That's air blowing through a pipe, folks, nothing more, it's a whistle, yeah, it's only the size of a Buick and that's one, there's 5,100 more, plus pipes or sound effects, each of these little white buttons to my left. and on the right are directly connected to the audible sounds that brought the movies to life when I touch the keys, it's just musical but you need the sounds to bring the movies to life, knocking on our door, babies crying, earthquake, avalanche, rates of wind, no sleep. of those train car sounds the

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s were equipped with these sounds now before playing them let me remind you this is one hundred and five years old it has not been modernized other than the system that controls it the same sounds are from 105 years ago and are generic in nature, so that a sound can be many things.

Would you like to hear the whistle of a steamship? Would you like to hear the bell of a toy train? The phone refills my Starbucks fire where's the real truck? My stomach before lunch. Yes really. How's the rain? Look. dorothy, it's a tornado, should we add some thunder? How about train car horns? Oh, this will be fine, okay, guys and girls, what's the name of that horn? No, it's not yes, it's congratulations ooh, it's the sound it makes and nothing more, oh, it's called a klaxon and if I needed, uh, birds, Tarzan was a silent movie, we have birds, yes, if I wanted to whistle at all these pretty ones Ladies, if I wanted to play the drums, I could blow the drums with air, I'm just telling the air valve to open.

When you touch the keys, they are 105-year-old castanets for a Spanish dancer, a wood engraving knocking on your door, how about the symbols? No matter what key I get Persian symbols for the dance of the seven veils or how much we were watching a belly dancer perform or a genie coming out of a bottle big bells for a wedding in a big bed or a funeral a block of steel makes 105 years, let's see, isn't it so incredible? Applause for her, not for me, I'm just a crazy person on the bench, now you remember the theme. of the collection was functional art everything here has to work everything here has to play alone the pipe

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s don't play alone they do it now yes you like that behind me first this is the first musical instrument in history that could record and play simultaneously it is common now but we broke the barriers and we did it in 1971 everything I play every note I play every stop I turn on sends a signal to the organ this is 105 years old what if we could record those electrical signals?

By the way, it's 12 volts DC for you guys, we used tapes very similar to those used at NASA and JPL, they spun at very high speed and recorded the signals as they passed through the wires when someone played when we played. the tapes came back through the organ and voila, she played almost in the world now it is common now the last thing I will share with you you will notice the black beauty over here that is the bozondo for concert imperial grand piano is the imperial for one very special reason how many keys how many notes are there in every piano ever built in the whole world 88 88 that is the international standard, we are not standard, our piano has 97, friends, it is the largest, longest, deepest, heaviest concert grand piano and more expensive. in the world it was not played alone, now we did our magic and that is the first time we own the copyright and the patent, which is the first piano that records and plays simultaneously now you can get them at Costco for Christmas. time it's the mother of the midi it's the mother of roland yamaha and steinway products we commissioned it to be the first but we wanted more what if I could play that million dollar piano from here and I can play from anywhere key?

I can even play with my feet here, so don't think I'm bored here, friends, so to conclude our time together, you have been a lot of fun having two different car clubs here. It's been an honor, so we Always present this magnificent American classical musical instrument with a fantasy theatrical classical musical piece because you guys have been so much fun. We are there, three gentlemen, on the couch, somewhere, a duet between the piano and the Oregon from Disney's Toy Story. I have a friend of mine, it is very funny and since we are in the season in which we are in the city, hooray for Hollywood to close us down, it is very funny now that you have not seen it yet friends, because this is not the organ, it is the console nothing comes out of here except electrical signals, but two of the 11 main locations behind the beautiful curtains will be revealed so feel free to get up and walk around, stick your head inside if you choose to record, you have my permission.

Please have our permission, we ask that you credit those recordings that are in the lower cup collection today and spell my name correctly and now, ladies and gentlemen, we very proudly present to you all the mighty pipe organ of the Wurlitzer Theater , enjoy your reasons for acting. so let's take a look fox uh