Better Pipe Organ Database

Unknown Builder (1936)

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Consoles

Main

• Organ type: Horseshoe
• 3 manuals
• 12 registers
• 3 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

2007-10-13 - Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Originally built for the Parkway Theatre in Madison, Wisconsin. Tonally altered many times over the years. The organ is extant but unplayable and in need of complete rebuilding/restoration. -Database Manager

2024-01-30 - Updated through online information from Nicholas Sutton: As of December 2004, this organ was removed and the console allegedly moved to Hoyt Sherman Place in Des Moines, Iowa and the rest went to Pella Opera House in Pella, Iowa. -Jim Stettner

Websites

• The Great Hall, Memorial Union [Ames Historical Society web site] - Photographs of console, detailed history of the organ (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

Other Links

• View API response (JSON)
• View on Pipe Organ Database
• Organ link wheel: -1, +1

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