YET another chord has echoed from our mighty cinema organ theme, which has been swirling along merrily over the past several weeks.

M. Lewis, of Formby Avenue, Toll Bar, now in his seventies, claims that locally-born keyboard genius Horace Finch did, indeed, play the St Helens Rivoli organ, if only on a short booking basis .

However, Albert Green of Whalley Avenue, St Helens, stresses that it was another organist with the same forename -- Horace Bagot -- who was resident musician at the Riv. And he refutes an earlier suggestion that Bagot moved on to play the Wurlitzer at Blackpool Tower ballroom.

Striking a separate note, Steven Britch, of Gladstone Street, West Park, believes that the Riv's organ -- not, in fact, a Wurlitzer, but a Christie two-manual B2 model with seven ranks of pipes -- was removed from the cinema in the early 1970s.

It was then said to have gone to a church in Leigh.

Steven adds some interesting extra detail about Horace Finch, once the musical pride of Clock Face. Confirming that Horace had made appearances at the Rivoli, he adds: "He went on to play the Wurlitzers at Blackpool's Tower and Empress ballrooms". Horace mainly performed at the Empress keyboard and recorded on several occasions.

"He also opened the organ in the Blackpool Opera House in 1939 -- the last Wurlitzer installed in a theatre in this country", adds Steven.

Horace performed for the last time in the 1970s, his career believed to have been halted by a hand injury sustained in a car crash.

And Steven signs off: "Being co-owner of a cinema organ myself, and having played many examples, I can be reasonably sure of my facts".

MY grateful thanks to all correspondents who tuned in to this fascinating theme.