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Theatre Organ Workshop with International Theatre Organist
Len Rawle.
On the Mighty Compton Theatre Organ Installed in the Hall

"How Theatre Organs work & advice on playing them"

Sunday 18th October 2009
At the Memorial Hall Old Windsor
10:00 am till 5:30 pm.

Len's seminar will last till approx. lunch time, from then we will have
"Open Console"
for anyone to have a go - Len will be there to advise.

A light lunch will be available for a modest charge.
So dust off that old music and come along and give it a go !

Tooting DVD A few still left.

Place your order now or pick one up at a Woking Concert.



This DVD of 'Raising the Tooting Wurlitzer' has the entire concert from start to finish. Featuring Kevin Morgan, Doreen Chadwick, Len Rawle, Richard Cole & Bob Morgan. It was shot by a team of professional camermen hired by us for the occasion. It is combined with a super Hi Fi stereo recording using professional sound recording equipment. You can spot your friends in the balcony or maybe see yourself.


It has a menu system so that you can replay your favourite segment over again without the effort of spooling to the start of it, and also has a bonus feature of 20 minutes which covers the build up to the occasion.




Order this fund raising DVD with confidence

DVD price £15

plus £1.50 P&P - European P&P £2.00 - USA & Australia P&P £3.00

Available from Len, Doreen or Kevin :-
or send your cheque made payable to ATOS. to:-
Judith Rawle
132, Berry Lane
Chorleywood
Herts
WD3 4BT

Important Announcement.
No more Tooting Concerts till at least late 2010

The National Flooding Disaster on Friday 20th. July also struck South London in a big way and in particular the Tooting & Mitcham area. The Chambers of the Wurlitzer in the GALA Bingo establishment (Ex GRANADA) were flooded to a depth of 20". This obviously inundated the bass chests, trunking, regulators, ground frame and wiring. The console being slightly higher in the orchestra pit was just above water level. Len Rawle reached the premises mid to late afternoon and was horrified to see the state of the chambers. He and GALA staff hired pumps, and using buckets as well, reduced the water level to a depth of approx. 3" by 10:00 pm that evening. The remaining water was got rid of on the following Monday. The soaked elements of the instrument must now be left to dry out before being inspected and wind put through. To do otherwise would possibly cause further damage.
After further inspection it was obvious that the flooding had caused more damage this time than floods in the past. As I write this, the sump pumps, one in each chamber, have just been installed so hopefully flooding to this depth will not happen again, although it must be remembered that flooding in Tooting and Mitcham is a well known phenomenon and can happen during any decent storm. Work has already started in removing damaged bass chests so they can be worked on off site. Some in fact needed to be removed anyway to make way for pump installation. The digging of the sumps for the pump intakes, has created a massive dust problems in both chambers so this will mean a big cleanup job now before further work in the chambers can be carried out. Work carried out on site can only be done between the cleaners coming in at 6:30am and start of Bingo at 10:45am so progress can only be made in small pieces of time. Because of this and the enormous amount of work now needed to be done in the chambers, it will be late 2010 before we can re-open it agian. Rest assured that Len and his team will not rest until the Tooting Wurlitzer can rise again.


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