The Mighty Wurlitzer. You want bass?

Another thread asked about organ recordings with good bass. This set me off on a search for Theatre Organ recordings. They aren't common. However I have found a source... Organ Stop Pizza, Mesa Arizona. They have a very large Wurlitzer installed in a specially constructed hall, and they offer a number of CDs made in their facility. Check out www.organstoppizza.com.

I bought two discs (Red, White, & Blue, and Fanfare) and can recommend them to all who have subwoofers needing exercise. My subwoofer systems, consisting of three 15" and three 12" drivers and 2550 watts of amplifier power were challenged. (I also blew a tweeter fuse in a Maggie 1.6).

The Wurlitzer is a remarkable instrument, quite different from church organs, and uniquely suited to Broadway show tunes, patriotic songs and marches. But one CD also has Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, and Schubert's Ave Maria. Nice.

These are stereo CDs, but I found that they respond exceptionally well to multichannel Dolby decoding. Perhaps the mix was done for a DVD release sometime in the future.

Any AGoners in Arizona...please report on the pizza quality. This might be worth a trip.