I'm a theatre buff, not a theatre organ buff... that's what 56packman and a few others here are for!
But I did want to mention a few things about the 5 great surviving organs of Detroit's greatest theatres...
First of all there are only 4 theatres in the world known to have had an organ in the auditorium and an independent organ in the grand lobby. The Detroit Fox is the only one of these 4 that still has both of its' original organs.
The other 3 theatres are the San Francisco Fox [[razed 1963), the St. Louis Fox [[auditorium organ is still original, but the lobby organ was removed and later replaced by another organ, and the NYC Roxy Theatre [[razed 1961).
Of the other theatre organs in Detroit, the mighty one of a kind 4/34 Wurlitzer organ at the old Fisher Theatre [[uniquely built by Wurlitzer to have both theatre and church pipes)... is still in the city... located in the Senate Theatre on Michigan Ave., and carefully maintained by the DTOS [[Detroit Theatre Organ Society).
http://dtos.org/OurOrgan.html
The organ of the Michigan Theatre was moved 20 years before the theatre was gutted. The 5/28 Wurlizter [[later upgraded to 5/32) was removed in 1956 by a Racine Wisconsin insurance salesman into the basement of his home. This July the CBS National News did a quick blurb on the former Michigan Organ...
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_16...-home-theater/
http://www.dairylandtheatreorgan.org/hermes.html
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