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Queensland’s latest theatre pipe organ is at the Majestic Theatre, Pomona, some 90 miles north of Brisbane.

This is a composite organ, purchased from the ACT Division of TOSA. The nucleus of it was formerly in the Seventh Day Adventist Church, Concord, Sydney (three ranks of Christie pipes from the Empire Theatre, Dunedin, New Zealand), plus some percussions.

Ron West, a former Sydney theatre organist, purchased the theatre and installed the organ himself. He and Andrew Zieren play it for the accompaniment of silent films, which are the only films shown at West’s Majestic Silent Film Theatre. The Majestic is the only commercial theatre in Australia that shows exclusively silent films.

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