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The combination proved to be an outstanding success and an organ of solid but brilliant character resulted. Richards added 22 voices of the unit character. These choruses consist of 20 voices never normally found in theater organs. High wind pressures and included proper choruses of diapasons, mixtures and reeds in each chamber. Therefore, he departed from the usual design of 8 to 15 “units” of orchestral reeds, flutes, strings and diaphones all The organ for the limited purpose of accompanying motion pictures (something which sound pictures were soon to displace) and therefore proposed an instrument that was orchestral inĬharacter but would likewise have the foundation of a true pipe organ. Emerson Richards, architect of this instrument, (also of the organ in the main hall) was unwilling to design Wanted an organ of orchestral type, or as he viewed it a “theater organ”. Lincoln Dickey, the first manager of the Hall to use this room as a dance hall and also as a motion picture theater. Orchestra pit actually) half way along the inner side of the room about 110 feet from the nearest chamber and about 150 feet from the left chamber (facing the stage). The console is located in the musicians balcony (a transposed Situated in two chambers, one on each side of the stage in the standard arrangement for most theater organs of the era. It seats 3,000 people (including the rear balcony). It is 181 feet long, 128 feet wide, and 75 feet high. The Theater is, itself, a room of gigantic size.

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Now featured for recitals throughout the season in addition to the noon concert series when the main arena is in use. Recent restoration efforts led by the non-profit Historic Organ Restoration Committee (HORC) have returned approximately 95% of this instrument to operation and it is Pipes and orchestral instruments hidden behind the walls of the main stage. There are no electric amplifiers or speakers included. All of these sounds are (as with the organ in the main arena) produced by compressed air acting upon Incredible array of unique sound effects such as birds, trains, sirens and gongs. With the accompaniment of motion pictures in mind (all films before 1927 were silent), it is especially good at creating the illusion of a full symphony orchestra as well as producing an Kimball organ, Opus 7073, of the Adrian Phillips Theater is one of the largest original installations left in a public entertainment venue in the nation. Designed Kimball stopped making organs in 1983 and pianos in 1996, but continues to make their line of furniture and fixtures, as well as piano cabinets for other companies.The W.W. The Starbrite, Starmaker, Strummer and 3-manual theatre Model 653 were the Conn models introduced by Kimball to the You can tell a Conn organ made by Kimball because the thumb pistons on Conn were Kimball bought the organ corporationĪlmost immediately and manufactured organs under both the Kimball and Conn names. In 1979, the Conn Organ Corporation went out of business, but Conn still continues to make band instruments to this day. The Entertainer was a division of stops that included one-finger chords, Swinger-Bass, Solo Chord and other Easy-Play features. The built-in Leslie gave the tibias a true theatre The mainstream tonesĬould have been voiced better and the diapason was terrible (several home organ manufactures missed the boat on that one).

The instruments had good sounding flutes or tibias,Ī very realistic reed section, very articulate percussion stops and was one of the first to develop the symphonic-type string tones with built in celesting.

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Kimball carried a full line of organs from the small one-manual Swinger 80 to the full-featured console Xanadu. The tone was deplorable! A few years later, they went to all transistor technology and made a mark in the home market.

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These instruments used a photo-electric cell generator amplified with vacuum tubes,Īnd were not successful.

In 1961, Kimball came out with its first electronic, or rather electric, organs. In 1959, Kimball was purchased by the Jasper Corporation and moved to Jasper, Indiana. Of course, we all know Kimball for its line of fine pianos and they also manufactureįurniture. In the silentįilm era, Kimball built many theatre pipe organs and they may still be heard across the land. Kimball also did one of the rebuildings of the great Mormon Tabernacle organ in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Three ranks of free reeds to replace the longer pedal pipes.

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He developed portable pipe organs that used William Wallace Kimball founded the Kimball Organ Company in Chicago in 1857, manufacturing reed and pipe organs.

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