Robert Hope-Jones
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Robert Hope-Jones was an English musician who is considered to be the inventor of the theatre organ in the early 20th century. He thought that a pipe organ should be able to imitate the instruments of an orchestra, and that the console should be detachable from the organ.
Hope-Jones 16 ft open wood pipes prior to removal from All Saints' Church, Upper Norwood
Wurlitzer Hope-Jones Unit Orchestra plate, Nethercutt Collection
Theatre organ
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A theatre organ is a type of pipe organ developed to accompany silent films, from the 1900s to the 1920s.
Console of the 3/13 Barton Theatre Pipe Organ at Ann Arbor's Michigan Theatre
Console of the Rhinestone Barton theatre organ, installed in Theatre Cedar Rapids
The console of the Crawford Special-Publix One Mighty Wurlitzer, at the Alabama Theatre. 25 of this model were built.
The offices of the Wurlitzer factory in New York, previously known as the North Tonawanda Barrel Organ Factory.