Theatre organ
（重定向自Cinema organ）
![Console of the 3/13 Barton Theatre Pipe Organ at Ann Arbor's Michigan Theatre](/Images/godic/202501/04/Console1830.jpg")
![Spectacular console of the original installation 3 manual, 14 rank Rhinestone Barton theatre organ, installed in Theatre Cedar Rapids (the former RKO Iowa Theatre), Cedar Rapids, Iowa](/Images/godic/202501/04/Rhinestone_Barton_Organ1830.JPG")
![The console of the Crawford Special-Publix One Mighty Wurlitzer, at the Alabama Theatre. Only 25 of this model were built, and it illustrates the high level of beauty and artistic work some consoles exhibit.](/Images/godic/202501/04/Alabama_Theatre_Wurlitzer_Organ1830.jpg")
![The offices of the Wurlitzer factory in New York, previously known as the North Tonawanda Barrel Organ Factory.](/Images/godic/202501/04/Wurlitzer_Factory_Tower_Top1830.JPG")
A theatre organ (also known as a theater organ, or [especially in the U.K.] a cinema organ) is a distinct type of pipe organ originally developed to provide music and sound effects to accompany silent films during the first 3 decades of the 20th century.