California Organ Co.
1940s

This instrument was Estey Opus 1812 installed in United Artists Studios, Hollywood, in 1929. Around 1932 the organ was sold to the Walt Disney Studios, then located in the Edendale section of Los Angeles. When Disney moved to their Burbank lot in 1939, the organ was sold to La Sierra College.

Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- This organ was the reinstallation (and enlargement?) of an existing organ - believed to have been an Aeolian, but which might have been a Los Angeles Art Organ Co. instrument. It was installed by Val Holzinger of the California Organ Co. before he founded the Holzinger Organ Co. The organ was later substantially rebuilt and enlarged by organist Donald Jon Vaughn over a period of many years beginning in the 1960s. Info courtesy of Clint Meadway of Monroe, Washington, who played this organ as a student from 1958-1962.