Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2007-04-28 - Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- This was the firm's magnum opus. It was built beginning in 1912, but wasn't installed until 1916. See Diapason, August 1916, pg. 3. Also had a 2-manual piano console. Cost $25,000.00. Ca. 1955, acquired by Butte native Don Stagg and placed in storage at Orton Bros. on Broadway. Later sold to Sandy Balcom of Balcom and Vaughan. The remote, two-manual console went to a residence in River Mansion, California. -Database Manager
2016-11-27 - Updated through online information from Thomas L. DeLay. <br>Alexander Schreiner was an organist on the Rialto organ and mentions it in his autobiography. -Database Manager
2017-05-19 - Updated by R.F. McDonald, who gave this as the source of the information: I surveyed what remained of the organ around 1960. The console cable had been cut behind the console and the console had been put in storage. There was a grand piano on the stage which was wired to the massive organ relay, which was also on stage-right. The piano had no keyboard. The echo organ was behind the balcony and contained 5 or six ranks, including a nice flugel horn and some percussion. Someone had removed about 16 ranks of the most desirable pipes from the main part of the organ. The chest magnets looked like Wurlitzer, but I didn't see Wurlitzer written anywhere. At two places in the organ I saw the Hope-Jones signature. There were 3 ea 32 foot diaphone pipes. The installation was magnificent, not buried. The acoustics of the auditorium were outstanding. The building had been condemned and was boarded up waiting for demolition. It still makes me sick to think of it. -Database Manager
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