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Larry Douglas Embury
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Although the piano and organ share a standard black-and-white-note keyboard format, the instruments are vastly different; few musicians are able to have equal artistic and technical command over both of them.
Larry Douglas Embury presides over the thunder-and-whisper majesty of "Mighty Mo," the massive Möller organ that is the centerpiece of Atlanta's Fox Theatre - at 4600 seats, the largest grossing legitimate theatre in the country.
At the Fox Theatre, Embury is at the controls not just of the instrument itself, but of the lift which brings the organ platform up through the floor onto the stage, to the delight of the audience. The great versatility of organ and organist creates all sorts of musical and sound effects; for silent film accompaniment, there are whistles of oncoming trains, auto horns, steamboat whistles, sleigh bells, an airplane, and many other sounds. When opening for the popular touring attraction, STOMP, Larry was both orchestra and percussion; for bass drum "hits," he had both feet flying.
