Better Pipe Organ Database

The Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. Opus 1930 (1928)

Tennessee Theatre
604 S. Gay Street
Knoxville, TN

Images

2007-08-06 - Console (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Horseshoe
Console position: Console on Lift
3 manuals
17 stops
2 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys in Horseshoe Curves
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons

Notes

2007-05-30 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- October 2000, organ removed and shipped to Ken Chrome in Reno, Nevada for restoration. Reinstalled beginning August 27, 2001. Re-deicated by Lyn Larsen on October 1, 2001. Salicional Celeste added making the organ now 18 ranks. -Database Manager

2012-06-16 - Updated through online information from Will Dunklin. -Database Manager

2017-06-09 - Information from <i>The Wurlitzer Pipe Organ - An Illustrated History</i> by David L. Junchen (ed. Weiler), American Theatre Organ Society (2005)<br> Wurlitzer "Style Bal 2"<br> Factory date: August 11, 1928 -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: From Pipeorg-L LISTSERV Date not recorded

Knoxville, Tennessee
Tennessee Theatre

The Rudolph Wurlitzer Co.   Opus 1930   1928   Style BALABAN 2   3 manuals, 17 ranks
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              MAIN CHAMBER                                SOLO CHAMBER
    16' Diaphonic Diapason  85 pipes            16' Tuba Horn           85 pipes
     8' Brass Trumpet       61 pipes             8' English Horn        61 pipes *
     8' Clarinet            61 pipes            16' Tibia Clausa        97 pipes
     8' Viol d'Orchestre    85 pipes             8' Oboe Horn           61 pipes
     8' Viol Celeste        73 pipes             8' Kinura              61 pipes
     8' Salicional          73 pipes             8' Orchestral Oboe     61 pipes
     8' Salicional Celeste  61 pipes *           8' Saxophone           61 pipes *
    16' Concert Flute       97 pipes             8' Quintadena          61 pipes
     8' Vox Humana          61 pipes                Marimba             49 notes
        Chrysoglott         49 notes                Cathedral Chimes    25 notes
                                                    Xylophone           37 notes
                                                    Glockenspiel        37 notes
        * added by Ken Chrome in 1998


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-06-09]