Sales

The items listed below are available either from our shop or by post. The Organ Theatre shop is open during the Sunday afternoon performances and for all concert dates advertised on this web site.

Please note that we have limited supplies of some of our cassette recordings, which will not be replaced.

For postage, please send your cheque, made payable to 'SAMMS', and include your delivery address and telephone number to:-

PO Box 59
St. Albans
Hertfordshire
AL2 2BF
UK

The postage prices quoted are based on the current UK postage rates (January 2007). The society reserves the right to revise these prices in line with future postal charge increases. This web site will be updated accordingly.


The Charles Hart Collection CD

(Just released December 2011)
  1. 121-key Decap ~ St Albans March + Limbo Rock
  2. Disc musical boxes ~ All Along the Rails / Soldiers of the Queen / Bohemian Girl
  3. 92-key Decap ~ Savoy English Medley + Bel Viso
  4. Mills Violano-Virtuoso ~ In the Hush of the Night
  5. Rutt theatre organ ~ Speak Low - played by Nigel Ogden
  6. Red Roll Welte ~ Monte Christo Waltz
  7. 95-key Bursens ~ A Spoonful of Sugar + Andalucia Samba
  8. Aeolian Orchestrelle ~ A Day in Venice
  9. 97-key Mortier ~ Victorian Song Medley + I Got Rhythm + Polly Put the Kettle On
  10. Weber Grand Piano ~ A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
  11. 92-key Decap ~ Play a Simple Melody + The Carousel Waltz + Meet Mr. Callaghan
  12. Cylinder & Symphonion musical boxes ~ Rule Britannia / Skaters' Waltz
  13. 95-key Bursens ~ Albert Decap Foxtrot + A Banda
  14. Mills Violano-Virtuoso ~ When You Come to the End of the Day
  15. Wurlitzer theatre organ ~ Vanessa - played by Nigel Ogden
  16. Marshall & Wendall Piano ~ Roses of Picardy
  17. 121-key Decap ~ Twelfth Street Rag + Any Dream Will Do
  18. Hand-turned Organettes ~ Blue Danube Waltz / Shall We Gather at the River / Victorian Waltz Medley
  19. 97-key Mortier ~ The Washington Post + Smoke Gets in Your Eyes + Making Your Mind Up
  20. Steinway Upright Piano ~ Where My Caravan Has Rested
  21. 121-key Decap ~ Spread A Little Happiness

£5.00 collected

97 key Mortier Organ "Four Columns" - Volume 2

  1. Kiss Me Kate Selection
  2. Thunderbirds March
  3. Lloyd Webber Medley
  4. Choo Choo Samba
  5. Gold and Silver Waltz
  6. Knightsbridge March
  7. Disney Medley
  8. Overture - The Force of Destiny
  9. Oliver Medley
  10. Caravan
  11. J.S. Bach - Orchestral Suite No.2 in B Minor
  12. Irish Medley
  13. Midnight In Moscow
  14. The Masquerade Waltz
  15. The Great Waldo Pepper March
  16. Overture to William Tell

£8.00 collected,  £10.00 including UK postage

The Fairground Organ:
Its Music, Mechanism and History

Revised Edition

Eric V. Cockayne

This is a hard-back publication written by the late Eric V. Cockayne, one of the founding Trustees of the Organ Theatre.

Eric found that very little information was available in print on the subject and subsequently, after years of research, produced a book in 1970, followed by an unaltered reprint in 1974.

Eric planned to produce a revised edition of the book but his poor health prevented this and he sadly died on November 25th 1990. Eventually, as per Eric's wishes, the revisions were completed by Peter Craig, a mechanical organ owner and member of the St. Albans Musical Museum Society, and the new edition was published by the Society.

The contents of the book are covered over 8 chapters as follows:-

  1. Music:- The barrel; the cardboard book; the paper roll.
  2. The pneumatic system:- The basis; motive power; wind supply; wind-chests.
  3. Key Frames and Tracker Bars:- Barrel organ key frame; book organ keyframe; tracker bar.
  4. Registers:- Controls in the music; register relay box; sliders and air valves.
  5. Pipework - Percussions - Prosceniums:- Flues; reeds; percussion effects; prosceniums.
  6. Organ Scales:- 45 key barrel organ; 46-48 key Gavioli; 52 key Ruth; 65 key Gavioli; 69 key WurliTzer band organ (86, 87, 89, 92, 94 & 98 key); 100 key Marenghi; 110 key Gavioli ; 70 key Hooghuys; 97 key Mortier.
  7. Tuning
  8. A Short History:- The early years; the coming of the bioscope and book organ; the peak of the bioscope era; the slow decline; the link with the past.

The book contains numerous photographs and Eric's line drawings that describe and explain the various mechanisms within the organ.

There is also an appendix by Mr. Ronald Leach, ARIBA, M Inst RA, covering restoration techniques, releathering and adjustments of organs.

£14.95 collected,  £19.00 including UK postage

The Mighty WurliTzer on CD

  1. Curtain Up
  2. I'm Beginning to See the Light
  3. Some Enchanted Evening
  4. Love For Sale
  5. A Broken Rosary
  6. Sometimes When We Touch
  7. Stars Fell On Alabama
  8. The Stripper
  9. I Hear Music *
  10. Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? / Let's Face the Music and Dance / Bye Bye Baby
  11. Begin the Beguine
  12. Spring Is Here / Spring, Spring, Spring / It Might As Well Be Spring / Easter Parade
  13. All the Things You Are
  14. I've Never Been In Love Before
  15. Like Someone In Love
  16. Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner / A Nightingale Sang In Berkley Square / You Are My Sunshine / The White Cliffs Of Dover / A Foggy Day
  17. I Left My Heart In San Francisco
  18. The Trolley Song
  19. Spread a Little Happiness *

* Duets using the WurliTzer & Rutt Organs

£9.50 collected,  £11.40 including UK postage

The WurliTzer Mug

White, half-pint mug with blue text and outline picture of the WurliTzer console.

This is a fragile product and only available for collection from the Organ Theatre.

A sip ...I mean a snip at

£2.50 collected

The WurliTzer Brochure

A brochure covering the history, specification and installation of the WurliTzer at St. Albans.

£1.50 collected,  £2.00 including UK postage

121 key Decap Organ 'England's Pride' Cassette Tape Recording

Side One

  1. Spread a Little Happiness
  2. Overture: The Arcadians
  3. Poupee de Cire
  4. Mambo Italiano
  5. The Fleet's In Port Again
  6. Waltz of the Jordaan - Amsterdam
  7. Lucky Lips
  8. Red Tango
  9. March Medley
  10. Spread a Little Happiness (repeat)

Side Two

  1. Overture: Show Boat
  2. Zambesi
  3. Never On a Sunday
  4. Fisherman Of Capri
  5. This is my Prayer
  6. Kitewatch
  7. Kiss Me Quick
  8. Chi Boom
  9. Overture: West Side Story

£3.50 collected,  £4.20 including UK postage

95 Key Bursens Café Organ CD

  1. The Marvellous Toy / Foxtrot Thirty-Six / Let's Twist Again
  2. Concert Waltz ~ Estudiantina
  3. Macarena
  4. Noel Coward Memories
  5. Snow Waltz
  6. Jim Jim
  7. Circus Renz
  8. Manolita
  9. Coco Nu Coco / Patricia
  10. Lambada
  11. Makin' Love
  12. Ding-a-Dong
  13. Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider; I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
  14. Tango - Vous Fermetez
  15. Pretty Woman / Da Doo Ron Ron / Living Doll
  16. Norman / Kasatchok
  17. Spanish Eyes
  18. Barcelona / Andaloucia
  19. Caro Nome / La Bostella
  20. Waltz - Fahi Musette
  21. Let Kiss Polka

£6.00 collected,  £7.20 including UK postage

92 key Decap Organ 'Jeanneke' Cassette Tape Recording ~ Vol. 2

Side One

  1. Boccaccio March
  2. Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue
  3. Sambalina
  4. Cinderella Rockerfella
  5. Bonny and Clyde
  6. Tango - La Cumparsita
  7. Blueberry Hill
  8. Selection - The Merry Widow

Side Two

  1. The Sharpshooters March
  2. All Kinds of Everything
  3. Hello Dolly
  4. Let's Twist Again
  5. Bel Viso
  6. Help Yourself
  7. Overture - Carmen

£2.50 collected,  £3.00 including UK postage

92 key Decap Organ 'Jeanneke' Cassette Tape Recording ~ Vol. 3

Side One

  1. Washington Greys March
  2. Belle of the Ball
  3. Spanish Gipsy Dance
  4. Tiger Rag
  5. Moon River
  6. March Militaire
  7. Doll Dance / Wedding of the Painted Doll
  8. Savoy Scottish Medley
  9. La Cucaracha
  10. Looney Tunes

Side Two

  1. One, Two, Three
  2. Street Gossip
  3. Glenn Miller Medley
  4. Mack & Mabel: selection
  5. Serenade ( Toselli )
  6. Ric et Rac
  7. Old Music Hall Memories
  8. Orient Express
  9. Cradle Song

£5.00 collected,  £6.00 including UK postage

68 key Decap Organ 'Lucy' CD Vol. 4

  1. Dardanella
  2. La Isla Bonita
  3. Dixieland Medley
  4. This Ole House
  5. Lollipop
  6. Edith Piaf Medley
  7. Amsterdam Waltz
  8. Kaspian Sea
  9. Al Jolson Medley
  10. The Streets Of London
  11. Give Me The Organ
  12. Fifty Years Of Song
  13. Accordion Parade
  14. Lambada
  15. Wedding Samba
  16. Savoy American Medley
  17. Who Are You Kiddin' Mr.Hitler
  18. Circus Renz
  19. La Mer
  20. Let's Twist Again
  21. My Prayer
  22. Love and Marriage

£7.50 collected,  £9.00 including UK postage

Please note that this organ is not part of the collection at St. Albans Organ Theatre.