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One of the UK's most famous instruments lived, for most of its working life, in the town which has always been something of a magnet for theatre organ enthusiasts, Blackpool. Inside the town's huge Winter Gardens complex is the beautiful Empress Ballroom which is actually larger than the famous Tower Ballroom a few hundred yards away and for 35 years contained a Wurlitzer theatre organ almost identical to the instrument at the Tower. However, the story doesn't begin in the Empress Ballroom because, in fact, that particular Wurlitzer was the first instrument in the Tower Ballroom, installed in 1929 and the one played for around five years by Reginald Dixon after he'd joined the Tower Company at Easter 1930