2008-05-12 - Identified through online information from Trevor Dodd. -- Originally installed in the Garden Theatre in 1927. Originally Flute, String, Diapason, and Vox Humana. Tibia and Tuba added later. -Database Manager
2011-01-01 - Updated through online information from John Deppe. -Database Manager
2016-06-12 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. <br>The store website provides the following history: "A BRIEF HISTORY: This organ was originally installed in the Garden Theater in 1927. Sometime during the sixties, the organ was removed and went on for two brief stints in residences. Finally, Mike and Penny Kinter purchased the instrument and brought it back to Marshall, where it remained in storage for some time. When the idea of the gift shop came into being, the notion of incorporating the Barton organ into the plans for the store seemed like a logical and novel idea. And so it went on for ten years, until disaster struck.<br><br>On October 24, 1987, a fire broke out near the furnace and soon engulfed nearly every corner of the store. When the firemen broke through the front doors the intense heat was measured at 1,200 degrees farenheit.<br><br>Miraculously, the fire burned around the single organ chamber, badly scorching the exposed 16' Bourdon extension and the console. And so the rebuilding of the store from the ground up began and on September 1, 1988 the Mole Hole once again opened its doors. During the rebuild, the organ chamber was enlarged, and a Kimball Tibia and Tuba were added to the original Barton ranks of Vox Humana, Stirg, Diapason and Stopped Flute.<br><br>As a result of the fire damage, the console required new keyboards, re-engraving the stop tablets and a complete refinishing. (You can still see a bit of scorching around the top portions of the pipes, a grim reminder of the fire.)" -Database Manager
2018-07-30 - Information from <i>Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ, Vol. I</i> by David L. Junchen. Pasadena: Showcase Publications, 1985.<br> -Database Manager
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