Vital Organ Parts

In “Partners Pull Out All the Stops to Save Wurlitzer’s Music Hall” (Dec. 30), about the Wurlitzer theater organ in the Old Town Music Hall in El Segundo, Jon Matsumoto writes that the “Wurlitzer can create various sound effects. Bells, cymbals, flute, trumpet and drums are some of the instruments this organ mimics.”

For the record, the Wurlitzer has organ pipes for the flute and trumpet stops, but it doesn’t mimic the bells, cymbals and drums. There are actual bells, actual cymbals and actual drums in the organ chambers. To mimic means to imitate, and there is no need to mimic with a theater organ.

ROBERT P. JOHNSON

Panorama City