Wurlitzer organ 45003/30/2024 ![]() Like some electronic pianos of recent vintage, the organ has a feature permitting the capture of keystrokes. What's more, it plays them without needing an organist - a great convenience for Jasper and his wife, Marian, neither of whom plays the instrument. This is an instrument so vast that a 50hp, 440-volt blower is needed to supply its breath (10,000 cubic feet per minute), yet so versatile it can play "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" one minute (complete with train whistle), and a Debussy delicacy the next. That's because no one else, royal or commoner, has ever built a 27,000-square-foot living room in which to house the biggest Wurlitzer pipe organ in captivity. But when the doors to the music room were at last thrown open, says Ridgeway, the man exclaimed, "Oh! Emperor not live like this!" The man admired the estate's long driveway. The guest, a wealthy Japanese businessman, happened to love theater organs and had heard that Sanfilippo owned a doozy. Robert Ridgeway, curator for Jasper Sanfilippo's collection of musical devices, recalls the reaction of a first-time visitor to the Sanfilippo estate in Barrington Hills, Ill.
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