A special programme celebrating the many homes of the ex Oldham Gaumont Wurlitzer organ.

Special credit to the Cinema Organ Society and David Lowe for the story as told in the Summer 2023 COS Journal. Additional musical itrems from the collection of Ian Wolstenholme

In this special programme, Ian is joined by BRETT WALES who goes back to his roots in creating the legendary Wersi HELIOS organ sound and chats about the idea for the new album.

You can obtain a digital download of HELIOS or the CD version from www.brettwales.com

A Community Keyboards Special edition featuring organist GLYN MADDEN talking with Ian Wolstenholme about his life as MR YAMAHA. Recorded on location at Cheadle Organ society, Manchester, on 3rd April 2023

Welcome to another edition of the award-winning Community Keyboards - celebrating all that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises - from theatre and classical organs to the latest in digital keyboard technology and beyond.

On this programme, music from DAVID GILSON, ALEX McALLISTER, ANDY CARVILL, JOHN ATWELL, BARRY HALL, ALLAN MURRAY and NIGEL OGDEN.  We visit the Capri Theatre in Adelaide and chat with BARB CORNISH and BARRY HALL about the venue and Wurlitzer.

Welcome to another edition of the award-winning Community Keyboards - celebrating all that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises - from theatre and classical organs to the latest in digital keyboard technology and beyond. On this programme we return to a couple of concerts we recorded at Stockport Town Hall and Victoria Hall in Saltaire as part of last August's COS Northern Convention starring RICHARD HILLS and MARK HERMAN

Sit back and enjoy some great theatre organ sounds from two great performers.

Welcome to another edition of the award-winning Community Keyboards - celebrating all that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises - from theatre and classical organs to the latest in digital keyboard technology and beyond. On this programme a mixed bag of ancient and modern!  We turn the clock back 50 years to feature the Philips Philicorda played by KEN BAKER, listen to some great Lowrey tracks on vinyl from JERRY ALLEN, hear a 63 year old recording of REGINALD DIXON MBE which cost 63p in new money!

Our special guest is ANDREW GILBERT who has made some superb recordings at home on his Roland Atelier AT900 Platinum Edition exclusively for the programme and we listen to a recording of "Voice of Youth - Princess Elizabeth - performed by RICHARD HILLS at the Stockport Town Hall WurliTzer.

Welcome to another edition of the award-winning Community Keyboards - celebrating all that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises - from theatre and classical organs to the latest in digital keyboard technology and beyond. 

The August bank holiday weekend saw the return of the Cinema Organ Society’s Northern Convention featuring several of the area’s theatre organs and a dozen or so organists to entertain on them.  Our microphones visited the Stockport Town Hall where RICHARD HILLS provided an excellent programme to show the many nuances of the Queen Wurlitzer so sit back and let’s join the audience.

Following on from that, a first-time visit to the Saltaire Wurlitzer for American star organist MARK HERMAN where, once again, we recorded some musical highlights from his concert there.

Many thanks to the Trustees of the COS Northern District and the Lancastrian Theatre Organ Trust for kind permission to record their instruments.  All recordings remain copyright of Oldham Community Broadcasting Limited

Welcome to another edition of the award-winning Community Keyboards - celebrating all that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises - from theatre and classical organs to the latest in digital keyboard technology and beyond. On this programme it’s another opportunity to turn the clock back to hear again some classic keyboard instrument sounds which were released on 33 and a third rpm vinyl.  All this time are examples of Hammond organ used in varying ways by three contrasting exponents of such.

Music from RONALD CURTIS, TONY BACK and KEN GRIFFIN on Hammond organs

Welcome to another edition of the award-winning Community Keyboards - celebrating all that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises - from theatre and classical organs to the latest in digital keyboard technology and beyond. On this programme, music and conversation from AARON HAWTHORN and a preview of his latest "creepy" project - NOSFERATU - A SYMPHONY OF HORROR.  We also meet the musician behind the music ALLAN MURRAY who is one of our regular contributors to the programme.  We have a couple of tracks recorded by ANDREW GILBERT especially for the programme on his Roland Atelier AT900 Platinum organ.

Don't forget to visit our new-look website www.communitykeyboards.co.uk and for the very best in mechanical musical instruments AND theatre organs daily - www.mechanicalmusicradio.com

Welcome to another edition of the award-winning Community Keyboards - celebrating all that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises - from theatre and classical organs to the latest in digital keyboard technology and beyond. On this programme, a chance to hear a selection of theatre organ recordings old and new as featured in the daily lunchtime online programme MECHANICAL MUSIC RADIO presented by yours truly!

So our second programme each month will pay tribute to the mighty Wurlitzers, Comptons, Christies et al with pretty much music all the way for your listening enjoyment.

Artists featured this time include: CHRISTIAN CARTWRIGHT, RONAL CURTIS,  DOREEN CHADWICK, WAYNE MARSHALL, DAVID PECKHAM, DAN BELLOMY and TREVOR BOLSHAW

Don't forget to visit our new-look website www.communitykeyboards.co.uk and for the very best in mechanical musical instruments AND theatre organs daily - www.mechanicalmusicradio.com

Welcome to another edition of the award-winning Community Keyboards - celebrating all that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises - from theatre and classical organs to the latest in digital keyboard technology and beyond. On this programme we have music from MICHAEL SULLIVAN, SAMUELE PAGLIARNI, ALEXANDER MCALLISTER, ROY JEVONS, NIGEL OGDEN and our special guest is JIM VOGELMAN who entertains on Wersi organ and chats about his latest venture.

Don't forget our new updated website - www.communitykeyboards.co.uk

Welcome to another edition of the award-winning Community Keyboards - celebrating all that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises - from theatre and classical organs to the latest in digital keyboard technology and beyond. On this programme, a chance to hear a selection of theatre organ recordings old and new as featured in the daily lunchtime online programme MECHANICAL MUSIC RADIO presented by yours truly!

So our second programme each month will pay tribute to the mighty Wurlitzers, Comptons, Christies et al with pretty much music all the way for your listening enjoyment.

Artists featured this time include: JELANI EDDINGTON, LEON BERRY, NIGEL OGDEN, RONALD CURTIS, HECTOR OLIVERA, MARK HERMAN, RICHARD HILLS, DAVID IVORY, plus we also chat with the Cinema Organ Society's RICHARD STEPHENSON about the forthcoming COS NORTHERN DISTRICT CONVENTION taking place across the August 2022 Bank Holiday weekend. 

Don't forget to visit our new-look website www.communitykeyboards.co.uk and for the very best in mechanical musical instruments AND theatre organs daily - www.mechanicalmusicradio.com

Welcome to another edition of the award-winning Community Keyboards - celebrating all that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises - from theatre and classical organs to the latest in digital keyboard technology and beyond. On this programme take an accidental musical journey thanks to a mistake with the sat nav!  Sounds intriguing!  Music from KLAUS WUNDERLICH, HUBERT DEURINGER, CLAUDIA HIRSCHFELD, ROBERT BARTHA, ADY ZEHNFENNIG, FRANZ LAMBERT, plus the winning entries from recent TDP Music Forum challenges by TORBEN GOLDIN and EILEEN LOWRY.  All this, plus our usual catch-up with ANDY CARVILL in ASK ANDY

Don't forget our new updated website - www.communitykeyboards.co.uk

Welcome to a special edition of the programme celebrating organ and keyboard music around the Stockport area of Cheshire.  GARETH EDWARDS from Stockport Organ & Keyboard Club drops into the studio for a chat about how the club is thriving post-pandemic and how you can get involved in its many activities.

We visit the Stockport Town Hall to hear the superb WurliTzer organ owned and maintained by the Lancastrian Theatre Organ Trust and hear music from the recent lunchtime showcase given by organist DAVID LOBBAN, plus CHARLES BROWN and DAVID ALLDRED explain how the organ has been brought back to full working order following the damaged by flooding last November.

This edition is sponsored by the Lancastrian Theatre Organ Trust 

For the complete archive of previous Community Keyboards visit www.communitykeyboards.co.uk

Welcome to a special edition of the programme featuring the full interviews with RICHARD BOWER and PAUL THIRKETTLE from Yamaha Backstage, plus TREVOR FLUNDER from Allen's Music Centre in Great Yarmouth, chatting about the work of LOWREY organs and other instruments stocked there.  Conversations were recorded at the recent KEYBOARD CAVALCADE festival in Blackpool.

Welcome to the second of two June editions of the award-winning Community Keyboards - celebrating all that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises - from theatre and classical organs to the latest in digital keyboard technology and beyond. On this programme, a chance to hear a selection of theatre organ recordings old and new as featured in the daily lunchtime online programme MECHANICAL MUSIC RADIO presented by yours truly!

So our second programme each month will pay tribute to the mighty Wurlitzers, Comptons, Christies et al with pretty much music all the way for your listening enjoyment.

Artists featured this time include: LYN LARSEN, NIGEL OGDEN, CHRISTIAN CARTWRIGHT, DAN BELLOMY, DOREEN CHADWICK and JELANI EDDINGTON

Don't forget to visit our new-look website www.communitykeyboards.co.uk and for the very best in mechanical musical instruments AND theatre organs daily - www.mechanicalmusicradio.com

The sponsor for this edition of the programme is the Lancastrian Theatre Organ Trust - promoting regular live theatre organ concerts featuring the UK's premier theatre organists at the Theatre Organ Heritage Centre in Eccles and the Stockport Town Hall on the world-famous Wurlitzer organ.  For concert details visit www.ltot.org.uk

Welcome to the first of two June editions of the award-winning Community Keyboards - celebrating all that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises - from theatre and classical organs to the latest in digital keyboard technology and beyond. On this programme we visit the Keyboard Cavalcade Festival held at the end of last month at the Village Hotel in Blackpool with a chance to meet and chat with organiser MICHAEL WOOLDRIDGE, TREVOR FLUNDER from Allen's Music Centre in Great Yarmouth, RICHARD BOWER and PAUL THIRKETTLE from Yamaha Backstage, plus Andy Carvill is on hand to help another listener with a musical problem in ASK ANDY

Don't forget our new updated website - www.communitykeyboards.co.uk

The sponsor for this edition of the programme is the Lancastrian Theatre Organ Trust - promoting regular live theatre organ concerts featuring the UK's premier theatre organists at the Theatre Organ Heritage Centre in Eccles and the Stockport Town Hall on the world-famous Wurlitzer organ.  For concert details visit www.ltot.org.uk

A special edition from Leeds Cathedral featuring four young organ scholars there CHRISTIOPHER DAVIS, RACHEL MAPP, ANTHONY BECKWITH and CHRISTOPHER HUGHES who each perform a short programme of music from Bach, Vierne, Vaughan Williams, Howells, Hunt and Elgar, at a lunchtime recital as part of the Leeds International Organ Festival on 23rd May 2022.  We meet the artistes plus a chat with Artistic Director DAVID PIPE.

Welcome to the second of two May editions of the award-winning Community Keyboards - celebrating all that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises - from theatre and classical organs to the latest in digital keyboard technology and beyond. On this programme, a chance to hear a selection of theatre organ recordings old and new as featured in the daily lunchtime online programme MECHANICAL MUSIC RADIO presented by yours truly!

So our second programme each month will pay tribute to the mighty Wurlitzers, Comptons, Christies et al with pretty much music all the way for your listening enjoyment.

Artists featured this time include: ERNEST BRIGADE, JOHN MANN, SIMON GLEDHILL, JOHN SENG, ARNOLD LOXAM, WALT STRONY, JEAN MARTYN and KORLA PANDIT

Don't forget to visit our new-look website www.communitykeyboards.co.uk and for the very best in mechanical musical instruments AND theatre organs daily - www.mechanicalmusicradio.com

The sponsor for this edition of the programme is the Lancastrian Theatre Organ Trust - promoting regular live theatre organ concerts featuring the UK's premier theatre organists at the Theatre Organ Heritage Centre in Eccles and the Stockport Town Hall on the world-famous Wurlitzer organ.  For concert details visit www.ltot.org.uk

Welcome to the first of two May editions of the award-winning Community Keyboards - celebrating all that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises - from theatre and classical organs to the latest in digital keyboard technology and beyond. On this programme explore some slightly longer light classical tracks with music from BRYAN RODWELL, HECTOR OLIVERA, ALEX PAYLER, CHRIS POWELL, JOHN BEESLEY, ALLAN MURRAY, TONY FENELON and CLAUDIA HIRSCHFELD plus Andy Carvill is on hand to help another listener with a musical problem in ASK ANDY

Don't forget our new updated website - www.communitykeyboards.co.uk

The sponsor for this edition of the programme is the Lancastrian Theatre Organ Trust - promoting regular live theatre organ concerts featuring the UK's premier theatre organists at the Theatre Organ Heritage Centre in Eccles and the Stockport Town Hall on the world-famous Wurlitzer organ.  For concert details visit www.ltot.org.uk