Database Manager on November 29th, 2015:
Updated through online information from Eric Schmiedeberg. -- I saw and played this instrument. This organ was combined with other components to create an 11-rank studio instrument. The Scheme 25 Wurlitzer church organ's console was parallel-wired with a Wurlitzer Style 215 horseshoe console from the residence of Loren Whitney in Los Angeles that had been enlarged to a single-rail 3-manual.<br><br>With this arrangement, duets could be played. However, the Scheme 25 stayed intact and was playable by itself through its original console and relays. The 25's console, blower and relays--and the Whitney console's--current disposition are unknown to me.<br><br>The 25 was absorbed, for the most part, into the Elsinore Theatre Wurlitzer (1987-present) in Salem. The Scheme 25 stoplist in the Wurlitzer List by Judd Walton was derived from this very specimen with the help of Clayton Parks.
Database Manager on November 17th, 2007:
Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- The Wurlitzer was a style "SCH 25". It was originally built as a consignment instrument for the Wurlitzer store in San Francisco, CA. In 1927, it was sold to the New Theatre in Sunnyvale, CA. In 1932, it was relocated to St. John's Lutheran in Helena, MT. In 1969, it was replaced there by a new 2/25 Balcom and Vaughan. The Wurlitzer was acquired by Clayton Parks at this time. It is not known who installed the organ in the Parks residence, though it is not unlikely that it was done by Parks himself. He already had a 2/4 Wurlitzer (Op. 244, 1919) installed in 1966. The disposition of either instrument is unknown.