That's the crux.Īrtist's rendering of the new console that's being built to replace the Castro's Wurlitzer. The current Wurlitzer, patched together by Richard Taylor from various organs and installed in the early 1980s, needs to be refurbished or replaced. Hidden behind louvers, masked by fancy plasterwork and painting, are hundreds of pipes and thousands of leather parts, the instrument itself, generator of sound. The console â€" where the organist sits and manipulates keys and stops and pedals â€" is the tip of the iceberg. There are so many moving parts, visible and invisible. Organs do wear out and are costly to repair. That is the way of David Hegarty, senior organist at the Castro Theatre, who's leading the effort to raise $700,000 to replace, enhance, and enlarge the vintage cinema's mighty Wurlitzer to the equivalent of a $20 million, very, very big, state-of the art pipe organ. Pockets of resistance notwithstanding, there is a way forward. This is a San Francisco story, of gay men and the size of their organs.
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