at the theatre organ

It was association with two other famous broadcasting organists, Reginald Dixon and Reginald New, that led Joseph Seal to take up the cinema organ in 1933 when he was only twenty years of age. He had had plenty of organ-playing experience before that though, for he was learning at the age of thirteen, and in a few months was appointed organist to St. Cuthbert's Church, Darwen, Lancashire. After playing for twelve months at the Regal Cinema, Altrincham, he went to the Lonsdale Cinema, Carlisle, and then on to the Ritz, Belfast, from which he has given over a hundred broadcasts.