September 1, 2005
Preserving the Pipes
By M.J. Prest
In the 1920s, theater organs accompanied silent movies to evoke emotion and generate sound effects; each showing was in effect a live performance. The versatile instrument required just one organist to mimic all the sounds of a full orchestra.
Today, only a handful of the organs remain -- including one at New York's Radio City Music Hall -- but the Free State Theatre Organ Society, in Halethorpe, Md., was founded to ensure
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