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Meet the Team!
We are responsible for decision making concerning future plans for the organ, having due regard to advice received from professional contractors.
As fundraising is essential in order to pay for restoration and maintenance work, we are also responsible for preparing a programme of monthly concerts by professional performers (and also the occasional amateur).
With so many people now wanting to join us as Members we thought it about time to show our faces and tell everybody something about ourselves.
Cynthia Dommett - acting Secretary
secretary@beerwurly.co.uk
Cyn is Beer Congregational Church secretary, magazine editor, web master and coffee morning volunteer.
In her spare time she shows her beloved Griffon Bruxellois dogs, and now has been high-jacked as the acting secretary of the FOB - having to take all their hair-brained schemes to the Church members for their approval!!
Michael Cull - acting Chairman
enquiries@beerwurly.co.uk
Michael has worked primarily as a performance organist from his mid 'teens until around 1987 when he decided to seek a more secure occupation with a built in pension scheme.
He apparently started playing piano around the age of three, by belting out hymn tunes with one finger on each hand!
Whilst attending his local parish church as a child, he was encouraged to practise on its organ after morning service by the church's organist, who would then pop home for lunch and return an hour later to switch off the organ.
Michael always possessed a love of theatre organs from the start, having based his playing techniques on the likes of Ena Baga, George Blackmore and Jerry Allen who were his mentors and role models. 
Glen Twamley - Promotions and Local Awareness Co-ordinator
promotions@beerwurly.co.uk
Glen was born in Southampton in 1970 and first started to play the organ at the age of five: well, a chord organ anyway!
Having progressed through keyboards, various electric organs and now pipe organs Glen is self taught. The only formal music qualifications he has are "O" level Music and Grade 5 Theory.
Glen's first contact with a Wurlitzer theatre organ was whilst at school in Rye during the 1980's. He even helped tune it on a couple of occasions.
In 2003 Glen once again became involved with the Rye Wurlitzer taking on the role of archivist, CD and book sales, webmaster and chief biscuit arranger! He has since been elected onto the committee and is now a Trustee of the Rye Wurlitzer.
Five years after getting involved at Rye, Glen took an interest in the UK's oldest Wurlitzer theatre organ. He has since moved nearer to Beer in order to be closer to the new love of his life (the Wurlitzer that is!). The rest will hopefully become history.
Brian Eady
technical@beerwurly.co.uk
Brian is a retired teacher with a lifetime interest in the Wurlitzer organ since working at both the Granada cinemas (Tooting and Clapham Junction) in 1973 and 1974 when a student.
He learnt a lot from the late Les Rawle when the Granada (Welling) organ was being installed at Woking.
Brian went on to install (virtually single-handedly) the ex-Granada (Slough) Wurlitzer in the workshop of the Picadilly Petrol Station (near Wellington, Somerset) in 1998 and 1999.