![]() “There is always one company that stands out as the Rolls Royce in its field,” Andersen said. He says it is “by far the largest of its kind in North Carolina.” ![]() The instruments are hidden in chambers and played through a latticework of pipes and valves.Īndersen’s organ, a Hope-Jones Unit Orchestra model, was assembled using parts from four of the more than 2,000 units built by Wurlitzer during the 1920s. ![]() Sitting behind the theater organ’s horseshoe-shaped console, Andersen can call up actual instruments like orchestra bells, castanets, drums and marimba. On paper, it sounds more like a Rube Goldberg contraption. The Robeson County native says that people often mistake the rare instrument for a synthesizer. LUMBERTON - It would take a 70-piece orchestra to play the range of instruments that Mark Andersen can juggle on his prized Wurlitzer organ.
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