A visit to Organ Stop Pizza

I've written before about visits to Organ Stop Pizza... in January, the Venture Out Activities Office arranged for a "Venture Out Day" at the restaurant -- so folks from our community were the only ones there. They had to have at least 50 people sign up, and it ended up that about 100 attended, to have a lunch pizza buffet and to be entertained by their Mighty Wurlitzer Organ!

The organist was Brett Valliant - probably our favorite organist there of the ones who are still playing.

Besides the pipes (which are behind glass that can be opened/closed to control the volume), there are also all sorts of other instruments controlled by the console -- mounted on the walls, hanging from the ceilings, and mounted in the balcony areas.

Brett explaining about the console and answering questions

Some of the folks from our park who were also there with us

This is looking up at the ceiling at some of the instruments -- you may be able to see the LED lights lit on the instruments (indicating that the instrument was currently being played), and on two of them, one LED light in a different color or brighter (that was the note that was being played at that moment on that instrument).

One of the songs that Brett played was the theme from Somewhere In Time -- we had never heard it played the at Organ Stop before: https://youtu.be/6gYc-zrclVs 

While we enjoy going to Organ Stop in the evening, we particularly like going at lunch time with a private group as there are more explanations and it feels like a personal performance just for us!