The Home: Bigger Than Stereo

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> Richard Loderhose. Manhattan glue magnate, who bought the four-manual, 21-rank Wurlitzer studio organ from the Paramount Theater building on Times Square, erected a 1,846-sq.-ft. outbuilding for it behind his suburban home. Since then, he has added 15 ranks of pipes, is currently wiring-in the giant five-manual Kimball organ console from the late lamented Roxy Theater in Manhattan. Says Loderhose: "If worse comes to worst, we can always live in it."

* Mightiest of all Wurlitzers: Radio City Music Hall's 58-rank monster with twin four-manual consoles, still in constant use after 30 years of intermissions.

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