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They all came out to say farewell. So sad, that they participated! It would have been so much greater, if they had been there for the restoration, instead of the destruction!

41:50 " It's delightful! It's delicious! It's delirious! *It's De-Lovely* Cole Porter , and my favorite is by the great Kay Frances. Here: *Frances Day with The London Hippodrome Orchestra: It's De-Lovely - conducted by Geraldo*

SO this is the SU sound engine? I am getting a Stardust from a friend of my brothers for 400 bucks. I have several great organs, but I look forward to this Lowrey. I know it's not as good sounding as the 'A' sound engine in the Prestige, but actually your registrations sound great! Can you adjust tone on every tab? I'd love to have your registrations if it's possible. Thanks! And great playing.

How did you sync the pistons from the MDS 317 to Hauptwerk?

What connection cables does it come with? Midi-midi or midi-rca?

The destruction of the beautiful Fox was inexcusable. It was offered to the City of SF for the bargain price of $1,500,000, and the stupid voters turned it down!! To construct the Fox today would cost at least $100,000,000. In 1980 a book was published - Fox: The Last Word...Story of the World's Finest Theatre, which is now a collector's item.

I am so glad that many of these beautiful theatres are being restored and repurposed into performing arts centers!!!

Very enjoyable indeed.

Let’s look at the sad facts: The SF Fox was a 5,000 seat behemoth, a theater built for NYC or Chicago, in a city of 400,000, in a region where even the center of movie making itself, Hollywood and Los Angeles had theaters not much bigger than 1,200 seats. Then, look at all the empty space on both sides. A hotel was to have been built alongside the Fox to subsidize the auditorium the way the offices above the nearby Orpheum, Warfield and Golden Gate theaters subsidized their auditoriums. That hotel was killed by the Depression, and its absence, combined with the vast size of the Fox, doomed the theater. 2Oth Century Fox itself nearly went bankrupt until a tiny little girl tapped her way onto a Fox soundstage and saved the studio; Shirley Temple, of course. Today you can still hear some semblance of the Fox’s mighty Wurlitzer in Hollywood itself, at the El Capitan, while the Los Angeles theater, on Broadway, is a nice miniature of the SF Fox, inside and out. And, once the Castro Theater emerges from its restoration in 2025, it will house the world’s largest electric organ. It’s not all bad news

Dad always referred to "Im in the Mood for Love" as "Funny Butt." Because "Funny, but when you're near me..."

Yes

The Los Angeles Theatre on Broadway can give us a similar feeling and almost identical layout and style. czcams.com/video/y4rtvTQHQF4/video.htmlsi=GDiJ8T_EJixT35i7 A.T. Heinsbergen may’ve been the Decorative Artist as was the so at the Los Angeles Theatre. The reason the SF Fox was so hard to take down was because it was built to carry a 30 story office building above that never happened due to the Depression. As we can, the ductile steel is massive.

The blindfolding of Don Baker is an interesting gag, but truth is, classically trained organists who could read were able to play without looking down at the keys, so if they had their material internalized well enough, any one of the good ones were able to pull that off.

Does that tune Carter plays at 8:20 have a name?

Wonderful playing! Nice job!

Nice job.

It's a good choir.

GREAT!

WOW!

Truely talented!

Wow

Awesome!!

Watching that organ descend for the very last time absolutely broke me. What a shame.

Wow awesomely done!!!!

The story of Don Baker was particularly interesting. I've heard of all these organists and all are greats of the keyboard! I can remember as a child my Dad was into the theatre organ sound, and he had two LPs I liked in particular. One was Al Melgard at the famous Chicago stadium and a tune I loved way back then was called my vision! The second import record was of Dick Leibert at the famous Radio City organ. Being here in the UK no record collection would be complete without Reg Dixon at the Tower Blackpool! All great for the memory and pure nostalgia! I still love to hear the theatre organ all these years later and just recently heard a copy on CZcams of Al Melgards, my vision! And it brought a lump to my throat I don't mind saying!

Very nicely played, enjoyed that.

I was born too late

Heard Gaylord Carter as a kid, at the theatre across the street from the grade school I went to.

It's a complete tragedy to lose such an iconic theatre. I could not watch the demolition part of the video, this hits too close to home for me....and I'm an Aussie! I still feel the loss for my fellow theatre and organ lovers from here though. At least the organ hos been saved and is functioning well in the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood but it still seems criminal that such a beautiful theatre as the San Francisco Fox has been torn down....and for what? Another office building!

Beautiful!

Does the console send mid for the stops and pistons? I bet NOT!!!

it sounds like snes early prototype 1916

Virgil Fox performed here a few times in the 50s I think.

What a horrendous shame this wasn’t saved! It would cost so much to rebuild it now(even though it should be!) I think the organ was saved. I’m so thankful our St Louis Fox here in Missouri has been preserved. It’s like a Time Machine that transports it’s visitors to the past.

One of my favourite hymns! Is that a Victrola VV-VIII to your left? Or possibly an early version VV-IX? I have a 1914 VV-IX and a 1920 VV-IX with the scrolled millwork under the legs.

Absolutely beautiful. ❤

hey greg you're awesome man! really talented. and im really feeling the tie die shirt brotha!

great video !

I will never forget this wonderful experience for you, and the kindness of Glenn Taller. This was absolutely INCREDIBLY AWESOME!!!!!

Along Came Jones?

I was there when he was setting his combinations for this concert! This was like take five and each time it he played it, it got prettier and lusher! 😉❤️🎶

Just think of it! Atlanta, St. Louis, and my home metroplex of Detroit all saved their Fox Theatres, complete with their theatre organs (4/36 Wurlitzers in Detroit and St. Louis and the massive 4/42 Moller in Atlanta) and their sheer opulent decor...and they are now landmark entertainment destinations that draw crowds and top-flight entertainers. And the San Francisco Fox was said to be the most opulent of them all! I'm not a "building hugger", but when you lose landmarks like this, as opposed to taking care of them, you're robbing your populations of that supremely important ingredient: TIMELESSNESS! When I first saw the Detroit Fox and heard its Wurlitzer, the combined effect of the architecture and sound blew me away like no other entertainment venue ever.

Sadly people don't realize this is the "destroyed organs" being played. They were never meant to play these songs, they were built for healing the mind, body and spirit. That's why they were "found" in structures of pure perfection we've never been able to conceive, let alone build. The controllers destroyed all these old realm masterpieces, or dismantled them into the useless crap people are told we're the "golden age of music. When in fact it was the beginning of the end of music. I'd imagine they were actually magical 300-500+ years ago.

He was a treasure!! Still is!!!

Another "palace" with zero construction photos, drafting plans, or receipts for all the tech, brick, marble, silk, wool or 3d trim work. "Found-ed" indeed, which is why we can only build crap buildings a hundred years later.

I can't watch this, demolition part of the video it's too much for me, as a 13-year-old today, I think the historic society should have been made in the early 1940s, so they could start saving the movie palaces that were going to be tore down including the fox in 63, truly, no theater will ever be like the fox

Absolute PERFECTION.....SUPERB!!!!

Beautiful string playing !

Absolutely FABULOUS...I can't get enough..I could listen to your beautiful music 24 hours a day. It's just delicious to the ear.

I wish the San Francisco Fox had been saved. It is nearly impossible to make a single screen movie house pay. In fact, the multi screen theatres in the malls are failing financially as I write this. The Fox could have been used for stage shows and other purposes.