The French trumpet is more 'nasal' in tone than the sweet-sounding style-D trumpet. It has been suggested that the original installation would have included a French trumpet however, there is another school of thought that Chatham was the only Union setup not to have a French trumpet. Ours was originally installed in the 2,322-seater Ritz Cinema in Union Street, Chatham, Kent, England, the site of the original workhouse - Chatham's second of 3 super cinemas and the largest cinema in the county of Kent, thought to be the oldest county in England, and was to organist Harold Ramsay's specifications, although we have made additions to the original specification pipework that was delivered to The Buttermarket.
It was not the first Wurlitzer ordered by Union Cinemas as this went into The Ritz, Huddersfield. Our Wurlitzer organ was ordered by The Ritz Cinema, Chatham on 23 November 1936 and shipped from the Wurlitzer factory in North Tonawanda, America, on the 12 December 1936 - confirmed by the shipping label on the back of the console.
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