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Mark Gulbrandsen
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posted 08-10-2004 10:23 PM

Steve,
The Rialto Organ is now at the York. There is a smallish Wurlitzer in the Tiv, donno where it came from and doesn't really matter much anyway. I want to say it was 12 or 14 ranks or there abouts, but I am probably wrong on that.

Mark

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Steve Kraus
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posted 08-10-2004 11:47 PM

You mean he downsized when he moved it to the York (in Elmhurst, IL, folks) ?

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William Hooper
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posted 08-11-2004 02:31 AM

You're making my head hurt! Do you mean the Tivoli in Downer's Grove (a.k.a. Downer's Grave)?

It's got a 3/10 Wurlitzer, which replaced the 2/7 Barton in 1992. The Barton is now at the York.

http://www.catoe.org/tivoli.html
The Tivoli looked better with its capital on the facade. Go browbeat those people into replacing it.

10 ranks is not small, but it sort of shifts that way with a 2 manual console. 'Small' tends to be anything under 10 ranks. A Wurlitzer Style 35 is 11 ranks! The Wurlitzer Style 260 (3/15) was the large, standard organ (you could always order a 'special', though) until Publix got into a prestige & escalation thing & had Crawford design the Publix #1 style organs.

http://www.atos.org/Pages/Journal/CrawfordSpecial/CrawfordSpecial.html
The tendency towards the proliferation of 20+ & 30+ rank organs is a recent phenomenon. Wurlitzer, Rober Morton, Barton, Kimball, Moller, etc. did make 20+ & 30+ rank organs, but they were fewer & mostly 'Prestige installation' & superspecial organs.

quote: Don Furr
After about 7 months I'm just about through installing 17 ranks in my home

I see those drawknobs! Turn in your card!

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