Jim Henry's Mighty MidiTzer
puts this powerful machine virtually in your hands. Dive right in there
and get acquainted with it and all the neat things it can do. Before long,
your world will be filled with the glorious sound that only a Mighty
Wurlitzer Style 216 Theatre Pipe Organ can make! It uses Soundfonts and is
the greatest one I have found yet! Jim has really done his homework on
this one. I absolutely love it!
This very rare Theatre Pipe Organ is like the one used to model the
MidiTzer. There were only twelve of these wonderful little organs ever
built by the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company in Tonawanda, New York during the
early 1920's.
It had ten ranks of pipes in two chambers, with traps and tuned
percussions on the toy counter. Joe Barron has a complete specification of
the Style 216 at his
VirtualOrgan.com website on the
Style 216 Spec
page.
The ten ranks of
pipes covered all the tonal families that made up a good organ. The traps
and tuned percussions made silent movie accompaniment a joy.
The Style 216 was
considered to be the "Hot Rod" of two-manual
Wurlitzers. It had nearly 100 stop tabs, two swell shoes, and a host of
thumb pistons and toe studs. It also had a versatile moving stop
combination action with two piano pedals.
Screen shot of the
Miditzer Style 216 console |
When you are ready for something
more, much more, than the Miditzer Style 216, add one more keyboard and
step up to the Style 260SP. All the familiar Miditzer features are still
there. You can focus on making use of all the additional tonal
capabilities that organists in the finest movie palaces had at their
fingertips.
The Miditzer� Style 260SP combines
two of Wurlitzer's largest 3 manual instruments, the 3/15 Style 260 and
the 3/19 Balaban 4. The result is a 3/19 Miditzer with all the bells and
whistles, from the diminutive 1' Fife whistle to the great big 32'
Diaphone "whistle"!
Screen shot of the
Miditzer Style 260SP console |
Get everything you
need to re-create the sounds of this tremendous organ at
theatreorgans.com
and
virtualorgan.com.
Some other
resources to check out:
Bruce Miles.. Creator of
the Cinema Organ SoundFont used in the Mighty
MidiTzer.
The Virtual Theatre
Organ..
Joe Barron's wonderful site dedicated to the use of the
Mighty MidiTzer!
theatreorgans.com..
Lots of Miditzer and Theatre Organ
resources.
