Unknown - House Exterior (Photograph by Eleete Real Estate listing photo (2018)/Database Manager)
Unknown - Balcom and Vaughan stencil (Photograph by Eleete Real Estate listing photo (2018)/Database Manager)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2007-03-21 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The Wurlitzer was originally built for the Blue Mouse Theatre in Tacoma, Washington. It was relocated here to the Polski residence by Balcom and Vaughan where it resided for 3 years before being relocated by Balcom and Vaughan a second time to the Crystal Lake Gospel Park in Milwaukie, Oregon in 1936. -Database Manager
2015-11-29 - Updated through online information from Eric Schmiedeberg. -- Wurlitzer records show this instrument as having been shipped to the Apollo Theatre in Tacoma, WA. Quite possibly this is the original name of the Blue Mouse. It is listed as a standard Style 170 Wurlitzer theatre organ. -Database Manager
2018-12-09 - Updated by Eric Schmiedeberg, listing this web site as a source of information: eleteerealestate.com. <br> <br>According to the Eleete Real Estate site, Phil Polski acquired the Wurlitzer for his wife who was an organist. Also according to the site, Mr.Polski\'s income was mostly thanks to the running of bootleg liquor during the age of prohibition! -Database Manager
2019-01-07 - Updated by Eric Schmiedeberg, listing this web site as a source of information: pstos.org. <br> <br>An interesting aspect of the Wurlitzer Style 170 is that the second-touch and tremulant stop tabs are placed on the curved rail of the horseshoe. There is no straight stop rail over the top manual. I discovered this by looking at a 1920\'s-vintage photo of the Style 170 console at the Ellensburg Theatre in Ellensburg, Washington. I know of no other model of Wurlitzer theatre organ that features this. This particular instrument is listed as a \"stock\" Style 170 in the Wurlitzer Unit Orchestra shipping list. -Database Manager
2019-02-10 - Updated by Eric Schmiedeberg, who gave this as the source of the information: Photographic evidence. <br> <br>The stoplist I submitted for this instrument is incorrect in that it misrepresents how the second touch and tremulant tabs were placed on the console. These were not on the back rail, but on the curved rail with all of the other tabs and segregated from the first touch tabs there by the usual metal tab group dividers. The 170 had no \"back rail\".<br><br>The Style 170 Wurlitzer Unit Orchestra tab arrangement is an anomaly and no doubt a cost-cutting measure by Wurlitzer. I have seen the 170-style arrangement in Wurlitzer\'s horseshoe consoles where their church instruments are involved, however. -Database Manager
Wurlitzer Style 170 Factory Specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Beaverton, Oregon
Ed Polski Residence
Rudolph Wurlitzer Company--Style 170--Opus 427--1921
PEDAL ACCOMPANIMENT SOLO --Vox on 6" wind--All others on 10"
16' Bass 8' Trumpet* 16' Bourdon
16' Bourdon 8' Open Diapason 8' Trumpet--61 pipes
8' Open Diapason 8' Flute 8' Open Diapason--85 pipes
8' Dulciana 8' Vox Humana 8' Flute-97 pipes
8' Flute 8' Dulciana 8' Vox Humana--61 pipes
Bass Drum 4' Octave 8' Dulciana--73 pipes
Kettle Drum 4' Flute 4' Octave
Cymbal 4' Dulcet 4' Flute
Snare Drum 4' Dulcet
Tambourine 2' Piccolo
Castanets Cathedral Chimes--18 notes
Chinese Block Xylophone--30 notes
Glockenspiel--30 notes
BACK RAIL
ACCOMPANIMENT SECOND TOUCHES SOLO SECOND TOUCHES TREMULANTS
8' Trumpet 8' Trumpet Main
8' Open Diapason Vox Humana
KEY CHEEK BUTTON--Accomp. key cheek--right side EXPRESSION PEDAL
Door Bell General
TOE STUDS COMBINATION ACTION
Triangle Fire Gong (reiterating) Pedal/Accompaniment--3
Surf Siren Pedal/Solo--3
Bird Tom Tom
Train Whistle Auto Horn
Fire Gong Steamboat Whistle
Sleigh Bells Horse Hooves
**Trumpets in 4 and 5-rank stock Wurlitzers are actually Tuba Horns.
These are stamped TU H on the resonators
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