Database Manager on February 2nd, 2019:
Updated by Eric Schmiedeberg, naming this as the source of information: James Stettner--OHS Pipe Organ Database. <br> <br>For a picture of what a Wurlitzer piano-style theatre organ console looks like, please refer to Organ ID 30880.
Database Manager on January 26th, 2019:
Updated by Eric Schmiedeberg, naming this as the source of information: The Wurlitzer Pipe Organ--An Illustrated History--David L. Junchen--2005. <br> <br>The Style 109 came stock with a piano-style console. This type featured a full 88-note piano keyboard with a 61-note organ manual centered above it. There were organ key contacts under both keyboards. The piano could be muted and its keyboard used as an organ manual, if desired. One would suspect the variance in action/touch between the piano and organ keyboards would be considerable. I have never played a Wurlitzer with one of these consoles, but I would like to give it a shot! There are a few of this type still around. However, I understand that the piano-console type of Wurlitzer theatre organ accounted for something like 25% of the 2,200 or so produced by that firm.
Database Manager on March 22nd, 2007:
Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner.
Database Manager on March 21st, 2007:
Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- This was a style 109 WurliTzer with a piano-style case. It was removed from the theatre and reinstalled at First Presbyterian in Bend in the 1930s by Balcom and Vaughan; at that time it was enlarged to 2/5 with a new console. Disposition of the original console is unknown. In the 1980s [ca. 1985] it was sold to Rick and Roxy Rumgay for the Bend residence. In 1998, they sold it to Fr. Don Maddox of St. David of Wales Episcopal Church in Shelton, Washington, where it was combined with a 2/6 Morton and other miscellaneous pipes and parts for the Parish Hall across from the church.