This powerful source of wind pressure runs the entire mechanical system and also plays the pipes. The entire system is air-powered from a 10-horsepower Spencer Turbine Orgoblo.
From the console, the organist controls the pipes and many percussive instruments, such as a xylophone, marimba, piano, drums, and cymbals. The organ console has four keyboards, 260 switches, and an array of controls and pedals. The Mighty Wurlitzer consists of more than 2,600 pipes. All silent feature films are accompanied live by the Mighty Wurlitzer, just as they were when originally released. The "Two Bills" opened their doors in 1968, and to this day the Old Town Music Hall continues to entertain audiences with silent and sound films, as well as ragtime, jazz and pipe organ concerts.
Old Town Music Hall began in the 1960's when two musicians, Bill Coffman and Bill Field, purchased the Mighty Wurlitzer Theater Pipe Organ from the Fox West Theater in Long Beach, CA, and installed it in the quaint 188-seat El Segundo State Theater, originally built in 1921.
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