The Mighty Wurlitzer.
Blackpool's Mighty Wurlitzer is situated in the Tower Ballroom and plays the jauntiest of tunes whilst rising from beneath its stage. The average Wurlitzer has over 2000 keys including pedals. Players are secured to the machine by a series of leather straps that take over an hour to undo. To assist in manipulating the many pedals teak blocks polished by the sweat of selected orphans are attached to the organists feet with velcro. A story denied by Wurlitzer suggests the famously smooth keyboard action is achieved only via the regular application of tears stolen in times of hardship from widows.
One can perhaps see why they might wish to keep that fact secret.
2 comments:
Very interesting Dan, I didn't know the Wurlitzer had so many fascinating secrets. Rather like the idea of the organist being strapped to his machine, sounds like some medieval torture.
Sandy,
You'd be amazed at the amount of important information we are kept from. I see it as a duty on my blog to reveal only what's true.
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