ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

From: Dave Schutt, Nov. 1998

As many people know, George Wright was instrumental in the original installation of this organ. Kilgen supplied a new console and relay. Fred Wood (who was a Wurlitzer installer and came to the United States with Robert Hope-Jones) did the installation.

The first program was held on December 8, 1939.

The original Kilgen console at Grant High School burned in 1973. Balcom & Vaughn in Seattle built a Wurlitzer-replica console that was installed in 1975.

Ranks are as follows:

Solo Chamber
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English Horn
Brass Trumpet
'D' Trumpet
Tuba Horn
Tibia Clausa
Tibia Clausa (small)
Gamba
Saxophone
Orchestral Oboe
Kinura
Krumet
Vox Humana
Marimba/Harp
Glockenspiel
Xylophone
Toy Counter #1

Main Chamber
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Open Diapason
Tibia Clausa
Clarinet
Viol d'Orchestre
Viol Celeste
Oboe Horn
Salicional
Concert Flute
Flute Celeste
Chrysoglott

Unenclosed
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Piano
Solo Xylophone
Celesta
Cathedral Chimes
Toy Counter #2

Dave Moreno has been doing lots of work on it. Regulators have been recovered and pressures restored to their original specification. The thing I noticed more than anything else was that the organ had more bass.

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