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- Reginald_Foort abstract "Reginald Foort (23 January 1893 - 22 May 1980) was a cinema organist and the first official BBC Theatre Organist, from 1936 to 1938, during which time he made 405 broadcasts on that instrument. He subsequently made further broadcasts for them as a freelance.Foort was born in Daventry, England, on 23 January 1893. He made his first broadcast from Marconi House, playing the piano, on January 15, 1923. Until 1935 he was the resident organist of the City Theatre in Amsterdam.In 1938, he designed and commissioned, from the American firm M. P. Möller, a mobile organ. Weighing 30 short tons (27 t), it had five manuals (keyboards), 27 ranks of pipes, and percussion instruments. It was transported in sections, by a fleet of lorries and, during World War II fuel rationing, by train. He loaned the organ to the BBC, after theirs was destroyed by German bombing. they subsequently purchased it, and used it until 1963, when it was sold to Radio Hilversum. From there, it went, in 1975, after a thorough refurbishment, to a pizza parlour in Pacific Beach, California, United States, where Foort rededicated it. Since 1979 it has been installed at Pasadena Civic Auditorium, California, where Foort attended its 23 April 1980 inaugural performance. He died in Pasadena, less than a month later, on 22 May.A special programme to mark his departure from the BBC, Farewell to Reginald Foort, was broadcast on the BBC's national radio service on 31 October 1938. He appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 8 May 1971.".
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- Reginald_Foort comment "Reginald Foort (23 January 1893 - 22 May 1980) was a cinema organist and the first official BBC Theatre Organist, from 1936 to 1938, during which time he made 405 broadcasts on that instrument. He subsequently made further broadcasts for them as a freelance.Foort was born in Daventry, England, on 23 January 1893. He made his first broadcast from Marconi House, playing the piano, on January 15, 1923.".
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