Originally installed to accompany silent films, the "Mighty Wurlitzer" pipe organ is the most popular feature of the theatre.  While the theatre was under construction, "talkies" took the place of silent films.  The organ became destined for use as incidental music during vaudeville acts or as light entertainment between featured films.  As a highlight, the organ is still played before most theatre events.

The Wurlitzer rises out of the orchestra pit on a hydraulic platform which rotates as well as lifts.  Purchsed by Loew's  for sixty thousand dollars, the original organ continues to be used today.

Invented by Robert Hope-Jones, and Englishman, the Wurlitzer pipe organ has three innovations: electro-pneumatic action, stop tablets and pipe unification.

Electro- pneumatic action refers to the use of electromagnets with sterling silver electrical contacts placed under each key to open the valves on pipes that need not be attached to the console, but could be placed away from it.  This method of producing sound is in contrast to the "tractor" method whose consoles were connected to the pipes by rods or wires.  The new system could operate on low voltage, making it more economical.

Stop tablets are tongue-shaped pieces of ivory in various colors that can be flicked to activate stops or voices.  They replaced the draw knobs. When the stop tablets were arrange in curved rows above the manuals, the console was referred to as a "horseshoe".

Perhaps the most important contribution of the part of Hope-Jones was pipe unification, a system of switches and relays that could activate every rank (set of pipes) so that they could be played on every manual at different octaves, thus resulting in an orchestral sound.  This new organ was called the Unit Orchestra organ.  It has all of the sounds of the instruments of an orchestra, plus thirty-one extra sounds such as, sleigh bells, auto horn and swishing surf.

The theatre pipe organ was used extensively during the silent film era, but came to be used only occasionally, such as during intermission, in the sound movie period. The factors of age and non-use soon necessitated maintenance and restoration on a regular basis.

At present the Wurlitzer in Akron's theatre is maintained by the Akron Civic Theatre Organ Guild (ACTOG). In 1973, the complete refurbishing of the organ parts was undertaken on a volunteer basis by twon members of the local guild and of the American Theatre Organ Society- John muraskevics, Jr. and Robert J. Parks.