Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2006-05-22 - Chorophone unit organ. -Database Manager
2006-10-26 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Mr. Horner was a pineapple mogul and manager of the Hawaiian Canneries Co., Ltd. The contract ws signed on May 12, 1930. Cost of the organ was $4,250.00. Organ installed by Ernst Gieseke who had installed a 4-rank "Chorophone" at All Saints Episcopal in Kapa, Kauai five years earlier. This was the church where Albert Horner attended and sang in the choir. Console of black walnut. Vox Humana on its own chest with auto tremulant when registered. Vox w.p. 4". Rest of organ on 5". Chamber was 9' 3" wide, 7' deep, and 10' 3" high. Organ seriously damaged on April 1, 1946 when Kauai was struck by a tidal wave. Console and pipes escaped harm, but chest was immersed. Correspondance ensued for 3 years between Austin, Horner, and Gieseke. Horner proposed returning console and pipes to Austin for evaluation. In a letter from Horner to Austin dated January 10, 1949 he states, "I will not return the wind box containing the pipe valves as this is completely gone." Ultimate fate of organ unknown. -Database Manager
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