You can hear the lush music from the Wurlitzer theater pipe organ before you ever lay eyes upon it.
Once you do encounter the magnificent console hidden inside the Immanuel Organ Gym off Pikes Peak Avenue, you can see why Dave Weesner is hooked.
The tall, lanky architect sits behind the pristine 350-pound organ, which rests on a 200-pound platform that’s on casters so it can be rolled into the kitchen when basketball games take over the gym.
He dives into one of his favorite genres of music the ’60s. As he presses the keys with relish, the 2,400 pipes, tucked away in the pipe chambers hidden behind a wall on stage, produce zippy renditions of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini” and “The Entertainer.” His organ has 35 ranks, which is a set of pipes. Each of those ranks produces the sound of musical instruments saxophone, trumpet, flute, vox humana (Latin for human voice) and many more. And there’s even a percussion cha
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