Publix Opinion (Dec 22, 1928)

PUBLIX OPINION, WEEK OF DECEMBER 22nd, 1928. 7 BROOKLYN INSTITUTIONALIZED ORGAN SS MENT. | THESE PAPERS GRABBED IT! P re ha dee GOOD STORY Wer NOE YOURS! THIS WAY (Continued from page 6) 1 Henry Murtagh, noted pipe) modernization of the organ which n virtuoso, rests his hands ands “mArhs rane | co ; eae Se oi ea ee mee ———— _jthe new duco paint will verify. upon the keys and pedals of|' |} Ct a THIMARVE MUSIC IS HUC R: Blortecs ernie Mar ee é Ae a : WN : hat bs Be ; -|organist’s Thoopee ub. Le 1€ it five-manual console Wur-|) Hi oOo fu : ~ Se = = circulation manager of one of the ran at the opening of the!: Heche seater ‘ i om ; : . newspapers promote the club for you, Merchants will give prizes free, once a week, for a _ special “Whoopee Club Saturday morning show.” Pipe organs, like violins, improve with age. They get mellow. The climatic conditions in your city have NeW YURK EVENING JOURNAL #® America’s Greatest Evening Newspaper yunt Square, Flatbush and eKalb Aves., on Nov. 24th, and! awakens 800 instruments into life until they throb into the mighty, sing crescendo of a 200-piece| -Paramount Theatre, ( p some mysterious element that makes ‘ pei y orchestra, it will be a your pipe organ better than most far ery from the lonely plaint of| others. Therefore, instead of buy ibia plana, carved from the : shin bone of a wild ass, which! wailed in the ears of scattered desert folk more than 6,000 years. ago. Yet, the one is the direct, lin| eal descendant of the other. The principle underlying both these instruments is-the same. Air. is set in motion the | ing a new one, the modernization of the old one is more valuable. While you're displaying your pipes in the lobby (see that they’re not swiped by kids, for whistles) let your organist do a piano solo on the Stage, and let it be explained by trailer-copy that he is doing it while a corps of expert organ builders are increasing the tone and volume resources of the organ, and when com plete it will equal a 200-piece symphony orchestra. In executing this idea, YOU have to take it seriously, and believe in it, or it’ll flop. If you put the pressure behind it, you ean make your pipe organ a big box office bet. used for piccolo effects. The largest tube is a 32-foot diaphone pipe which is so wide as to enable a fullgrown person to sit comfortably jinside of it. The vibration from this one pipe when connected with the wind-pressure is enough to -|shake a building: It is from a bat-ltery of these larger pipes that the tumultuous thunder of melody _jroars down upon the audience by the manipulation of the little finger of the organist. The drums, cymbals, auto horns, harp action, chimes, xylophone and other “traps” are actually placed in the organ chambers and played upon by mechanical hands to which impulse is transmitted by electrical ‘jJenergy released from the console Aby the organist. Every imaginable {noise that could possibly be asso ¢iated with any phase of city or country life, land or sea, heaven or earth, civilization, wild jungles or barren deserts can be faithfully reproduced by the wide assortment of traps in the Brooklyn-Paramount organ, which beasts of the largest and most complete set of noisemaking apparatus of>any theatre in the world. Being the last large organ built iby the Wurlitzer firm, the Brooklyn-Paramount organ includes the "aeseet tik rie at latest innovations and developi oo ments of the organ-making craft. It benefits by the results of many years’ experience in organ construction, having the double advantage of incorporating all the improvements of past efforts and eliminating the deficiencies and iistakes. ; One of the outstanding innovations of this organ is the unusual shape of the organ chambers. A great deal of thought has been given to this detail because of its importance in improving the sound quality of the of pipes and emit = ted through a lip, which makes the pipe’ forth musical sound. This’ ci is understood by every. |, barefoot boy who cuts a from a tree, hollows it out, an aperture or lip and blows | organ makers, attempting) ‘porate this simple principle | the first organ, evolved a con-) on which was believed by at the time to be most effiin frightening away evil ey Wurlitzer, the noted au-| ‘on organ making, said of is instrument: “The large pipes) of the oldest organ stood in front. The whole instrument bellowed and shrieked in a harsh and loud manner. The keyboard, containing nine keys, extended to 27 inches. The breadth of a single key varied from hree to six inches. Playing with) a oe , [ he finger was not to be thought S| One pine wt coer fa the key had to be struck i nee 8 with the clenched fist. The organst was often called “pulsator orranum” or “organ ‘beater.” Delicate Mechanism Nowadays, there is no fist-beatgon organs. To prove the deli‘eate mechanism of the latest model » the Brooklyn-Paramount Theatre, thé Wurlitzer representative who installed the organ placed a sin on one of the keys and even at slight pressure brought forth a faint responsive tone. The weight f that coin was sufficient to consy a command to the electrical wer to open one of the pipes in organ chamber up above and, by setting air currents in motion ‘in that pipe, to make it speak! : is jorgan. The chambers are con One would suppose that for this organ, The |< hamibers are _ com ‘sensitive instrument to function so sound like the sounding boards perfectly, a mass of intricate mechon pulpits of famous European cathedrals. “Vox Humana” Another remarkable development in the Brooklyn-Paramount organ is the “vox humana” or human voice reed. This, of course, exists in all organs but, by virtue of careful experiment with the pitch and vibration of human voices, organ experts anism is required. And one supposes rightly, for, as a matter of fact, this mechanism covers both walls of the Brooklyn-Paramount Theatre and is housed in spacious chambers which could comfortably accommodate several large-sized . families, ; = : 5 : have succeeded in evolving a reed It all starts from the keyboard} that bears so startling a resemand | ils of the console. The blance to che human voice as to make it almost impossible to perceive the difference. Brooklyn-Paramount organ is one of the very few five-manual con uae: 2 relty ef«. rex Y wi shests in the cham r b or as 3% le combinations and novelty ef+, rest on wind chests in the c roice, ever ee op -ooklyn-Paramount organ has 32 able ig ue 2 : Pe tide cinte that can be played: tix soles i orld, and each of Mba ea It “is ‘operated by the feet fects of which the organ is capable. bers about the wall: of the thea Sore otiony. vittieatre wae its ihe fe nes odes eee old the low tones on the; One of these contacts is the comtre. The tiny electric wires connect counterpart in. the Brooklyn-Paraltiplies its sound pos-jand controls the tow “'" bination board where Organist’ every note and stop key to mag-|mount organ. Some pipes simulate -an bearing the same relation to xa ( re eee en. oe, Dipes simulate organ bearing the sé | Pe ag his own original!) nets on the wind chest controlling |the throboing of string ins 1 8. the instrument that the basses and Murtagh sets up his own ging : eth this gigantic key 4 . . i : int » the li id notes f and combinations | ‘chestra series of tonal combinations which | the valves which let the air]. ocawind ee Sei “tinea tained is almost}tubas, do » y f the keyboard, in | later ean be controlled at the key-| through the pipes and cause them |give the blaring fanfare of brasges. lion mark. It has| The is th : listening, well-or| board by pressing any one of forty to reverberate. = _ Lah Re a rhe akctnae ot the ‘harp : perts six months tojcontrast ee a v-colored keys|ecombination pistons. There are _ Pipes in Sets is faithfully represented by tiny Se alt this important dered array of man) aspect of | several of these combination boards Pipes in the organ are in sets. |hammers worked by bellows. And, : oklyn-Paramount Bac Stops, ae raion “For | in the Brooklyn-Paramount organ,| They vary in size. The smallest Far takk ati ts nate tien > Bee cmanate the nivriah of|one for each manual and-one for pipe in the Brooklyn-Paramount bs duiline: to. lose its wayward ac : rom he ate the my! : foot pedals. Theatre is about the length of a [cents among the dark, luxuriant re te IES essary to : : ese sie Serle oot Se he Gane: The actual pipes of the organ’ pencil but much thinner and it is Icesses of the theatre. RS Rage 5 Sy ae umermake contacts with the Innun