The saga of the console restoration was complicated. The organ was Opus Number 2071, and the organ shipped from the Wurlitzer Factory on September 25, 1929. The console is an original Wurlitzer from the First Baptist Church in Dothan, Alabama. The console was dismantled to its smallest component parts and restored from the base up to the top of the capitals. It was decided that the organ would be expanded from eight to 17 ranks of pipes, and that a three-manual console would be required.Ī suitable console in extremely poor condition was found and secured. The NTC wanted to design an instrument that would be musically complete and well balanced for the MPAC Courtroom Theatre. Williamson’s home until 2004, when, after his death, the organ was acquired to become the nucleus for the "new" Wurlitzer for the MPAC. Paul Williamson of Oklahoma City acquired the organ and it became the basis for the pipe organ installation in his home. The organ’s Opus (serial) number was 1632 and it was shipped from the Wurlitzer Factory in North Tonawanda, New York, on December 5, 1927.
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That is, it was a two-manual (keyboard) organ consisting of eight ranks (sets) of pipes plus tuned percussion instruments, traps and special effects. This modest Wurlitzer was a Style (model) 190 instrument. The core of the MPAC Mighty Wurlitzer comes from the Poncan Theatre in Ponca City, Oklahoma. Members of the NTC volunteered their time and talents to assist Dallas Organ Works, LLC in the restoration and building of the organ. The North Texas Chapter (NTC) of the American Theatre Organ Society (ATOS) acquired carefully selected components over a period of years to create the instrument that is now a permanent fixture in the Courtroom Theatre.
There are only a very few remaining complete theatre organs of moderate size as is needed for the MPAC. The Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Pipe Organ housed in the McKinney Performing Arts Center (MPAC) dates back to the late 1920s.
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