| Name of institution |
Majestic Theatre |
| Type of institution |
Cinema |
| Street Address |
Murray Street |
| City |
Perth |
| State |
Western Australia |
| Postcode |
6000
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| Country |
Australia |
| Name of building |
Majestic Theatre |
| Name of room |
Majestic Theatre |
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Hoyts'
Plaza Theatre was opened on Perth's Hay Street in 1937 and had a
seating capacity of 1,314. Built on the site of the former Majestic
Picture Theatre, the theatre was part of a new arcade development
linking Hay and Murray Streets. The arcade remains one of Perth's
busiest, while the theatre has been closed and put to other uses in
recent decades.
The Majestic Theatre was in operation on 23 September 1917 when John Curtin, later Premier of Western Australia, addressed a meeting there. |
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| Previous organ(s) |
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None |
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| Present organ |
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| Type of installation |
Cremona Fotoplayer |
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| Builder's name |
Marquette Piano Company |
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Stop list
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organ |
In 1953 Paul F.Hufner used parts of the Cremona Fotoplayer from Majestic Theatre to build a new organ for St. John's Lutheran Church, Aberdeen Street. |
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organ |
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Photoplayers
were installed in the orchestra pits of theatres. Unlike unit theatre
organs, all the pipework and effects were in the pit. There were no
organ chambers as such. The "classic" photoplayer comprised an electric
player-piano with a double roll-player mechanism, and on each side of
the piano was a large case housing pipes and effects. Blower units were
often separate. Smaller organs had only a case on one side of the
piano, and the very smallest had their few pipes actually housed within
the piano itself. Photoplayers could contain from one to eight ranks of
pipes.
Most of Australia's photoplayers had only one manual, of full piano
compass (85 or 88 notes), of which 61 notes could play the organ stops.
Some of the larger instruments had two manuals, the lower being of full
piano compass, the upper having 61 notes.
Some original pipework remains in the current organ at St. John's church. |
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organ |
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| Photographs |
Photograph of the Cremona Fotoplayer from Julie's Collection
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Information from Cinema Treasures
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| Document control |
Original entries J R Elms, OAM,
Gazetteer of Western Australian Pipe Organs, 1971, 1999,2003 and 2004.
This entry D B Duncan 07 January 2009.
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