Welte-Mignon Corporation [Welte Organ Co.]
Opus 268, 1928
Residence: Albert M. & Bessie Johnson "Scotty's Castle"
Great Hall
123 Scottys Castle Road
Death Valley, CA, US
15 Ranks - 1,099 Pipes
Instrument ID: 39252 ● Builder ID: 6617 ● Location ID: 34629
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Builder: Unknown
Position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
Design: Horseshoe
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
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3 Manuals (61 Notes)Electrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action✓ Crescendo✓ Combination Thumb Piston(s)Stop Layout: Stop Keys in Horseshoe Curves
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination Action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location
Database Manager on July 13th, 2009:
Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Made from the 10-rank Philadelphia Welte Studio organ, plus 4 ranks added by Welte for this installation. Reportedly cost $16,000.00. The organ had a Multi-Control 10-roll changer as well as a single roll player in an ornately carved cabinet. In 1935, former Welte employee Lloyd Davey -- who had installed the organ originally -- added a Wurlitzer 6-roll changer which played Wurlitzer Style-R reproducing rolls. It was the installation of this changer that facilitated the need for the Tuba rank being added - rank number 15. A used high-pressure Tuba was found, brass for new reed tongues was ordered from Kimball, and the new tongues were cut, curved, and voiced by former Welte tonal finisher James Nuttall in his Glendale, Calif., home. Source: text and photos in <i>The Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ, Vol. II</i> by David L. Junchen.
Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Made from the 10-rank Philadelphia Welte Studio organ, plus 4 ranks added by Welte for this installation. Reportedly cost $16,000.00. The organ had a Multi-Control 10-roll changer as well as a single roll player in an ornately carved cabinet. In 1935, former Welte employee Lloyd Davey -- who had installed the organ originally -- added a Wurlitzer 6-roll changer which played Wurlitzer Style-R reproducing rolls. It was the installation of this changer that facilitated the need for the Tuba rank being added - rank number 15. A used high-pressure Tuba was found, brass for new reed tongues was ordered from Kimball, and the new tongues were cut, curved, and voiced by former Welte tonal finisher James Nuttall in his Glendale, Calif., home. Source: text and photos in <i>The Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ, Vol. II</i> by David L. Junchen.
Database Manager on February 20th, 2009:
Identified through online information from Jim Lewis. -- Three-manuals. Electric action. Horseshoe console with separate player console. House is open for tours.
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